As many other European works councils (see our article No. 080017), Gaz de France's sent a letter, at the end of January, to the European Commissioner in charge of Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Vladimir Spidla, to insist upon the need to revise the 1994 directive, relying on its experience. (Ref. 080100)
Martine Feuillerat (CGT), EWC secretary, first reminded that the agreement establishing Gaz de France’s EWC, dating back to November 14, 2001, “improves the definition of information and consultation, of the right to appeal to experts, of the right to additional meetings and trainings from the directive’s text, and extend the notion of transnationality which enabled to examine the mergers of two subsidiaries in one country, or of mass layoffs in one of the group’s subsidiaries.” However, even t
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