The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has published the conclusions of a broad investigation on companies' practices as regards workers' representation. This document, which must be used as a basis for a public consultation on the modernization of this representation, is all the more interesting as the system still mostly rests on a voluntary basis and that the law leaves much space for practice. (Ref. 070052)
The report notices that there are 350 000 staff representatives, concentrated in 14.5% of the companies of five employees or more. Trade-union and non trade-union representatives are seldom present together in the same company. Their number is about equivalent, but that of trade unionists decreased. Indeed, in 2004, only 45% of companies recognizing a trade union had a trade-union representative on the spot, down from 55% in 1998. 47 % of employees in companies of more than 5 people have a t
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