“We’ve pressed charges against Manpower France to demand the establishment of an EWC by virtue of the subsidiary provisions included in the French Labor Code,” Rachid Brihi, lawyer at the Grumbach et Associés law firm, told Planet Labor. In the background of this dispute - apparently a first - is notably the question of the conditions to appoint, in Europe, a representatives of the central management of a non-European group, a key point as it determines the applicable law. In this case, the stakes are high as the solution will determine whether the future EWC will be under British or French law.
July 3 will be the summary proceedings at the regional court of Paris within the framework of the charges pressed by Uni Europa, the European trade union federation, the CGT, the French trade union, and Unite, the British union. They are filing for “ManpowerGroup’s management obstructing to the establishment of a European Works Council, voluntary and fraudulently causing the introduction of a Special Negotiating Body (SNB) to fail.”
Facts. In their summons, the plaintiffs write that, on May 28
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