The new agreement is subject to the applicable laws of the United Kingdom, and after the UK leaves the EU the United Kingdom will remain within its scope. Representatives from both the UK (post Brexit) and Switzerland (also within its scope) are full members of the EWC structure.
Business Committees and a Central Committee. In a statement published on 27 February, industriALL Europe, which assisted the SNG during negotiations, declared “It has always been the priority of industriAll Europe to ensure that every GE employee in Europe benefits from information and consultation rights,” and according to the European union federation the need was all the more pressing because of restructuring currently underway at the group.
In the previous scheme, in light of how GE’s European operations are configured, some GE’s Industrial Business divisions had an individual EWC. According to the new agreement, A Business Committee is to be immediately established in respect of the group’s four major Divisions: GE Aviation, GE Healthcare, GE Power and GE Renewable Energy.