During a social coordination meeting, on January 30, 2008, the European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) and its affiliated unions decided on "a coordinated response to management's announced decision to close the factory in Bochum". The EMF hired jurists and experts to clarify if the company respected the dispositions on EWCs. (Ref. 080079)
“Nokia made a mockery of its obligation to inform and consult its employees in line with the EU Directive on European Works Councils and German law”, staff representatives declared during the coordination meeting in Brussels on January 30. As Peter Scherrer, EMF general secretary, already mentioned, unions want to investigate the legal aspects of Nokia’s decision to close its Bochum site in Germany (see our article No. 080042). To this end, the union federation says that it hired two legal expe
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