The approximately 70,000 European employees of Suez Environnement will no longer be represented by GDF Suez’s EWC on July 23. Following from its deconsolidation, the group operating in the field of water and waste management had to get its own European structure. The agreement signed with the SNB on July 4 is quite interesting. On the one hand, it’s not a copy of GDF Suez’s reference agreement, even though it has the same “standards.” On the other, negotiated nearly 4 years after the 2009 Directive on EWCs was adopted, it has sought to get a hold of the topics laid down in the Directive (link between the structures, communication about the EWC’s work…) with hindsight. (Ref. 130456)
Competence of the EWC. In addition to transnational issues affecting the entire community-scale undertaking or group of community-scale undertakings or at least two undertakings or establishments situated in two different Member States, the agreement adds to the EWC’s competence issues affecting a subsidiary outside of France subject to a decision by the controlling company or that directly result from a position made by the group that is important for European employees in terms of the scope
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