On 05 March the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) * issued a decision that included conclusions pertaining to European Works Councils (EWCs) and information and consultation requirements. In its decision the CAC affirmed that as soon as collective redundancies are planned in at least two countries, an extraordinary meeting of the EWC must be organized, even if the redundancy plans do not result from the same corporate decision and are not coordinated. The CAC also decided that the management of the group concerned is required to communicate sales information on a country-by-country basis (and not region-by-region as practised by management) on the grounds that country-by-country information is necessary for the full exercise of the EWC’s mission.
In November 2020 Swiss group Adecco’s EWC submitted a complaint to the CAC (at this time the EWC was still operating under UK legislation) for lack of information and consultation. On 26 May 2020 the European Representatives learnt that collective redundancy plans had taken place in Hungary (13% of the workforce), in the Netherlands (43% of the workforce) and in Sweden (25% of the workforce), and that other redundancies had been announced in Germany for June 2020. As grounds for its complaint t
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