Spain: adoption of the Act transposing the new EWC directive

Linking the different levels.  This is the key novelty introduced by the Spanish MPs: since the EU directive leaves the Member States free to determine the link between the different levels of employee representatives when the agreement governing the EWC doesn’t, the Spanish transposition Act provides that, in that case, “the preliminary procedure of information and consultation about decisions that may lead to major changes in the organization of labor or labor contracts will be carried out simultaneously within the EWC and other national structures.”  The bill adopted by the Council of Ministers in March provided that the procedures had to be carried out “in parallel” (see our dispatch No.  110166).
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the link between the different levels of employee representatives when the agreement governing the EWC doesn’t, the Spanish transposition Act provides that, in that case, “the preliminary procedure of information and consultation about decisions that may lead to major changes in the organization of labor or labor contracts will be carried out simultaneously within the EWC and other national structures.” The bill adopted by the Council of Ministers in March provided that the procedures had to

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