European Works Councils: Negotiated Europeanisation : Between Statutory Framework and Social Dynamics

by Wolfgang Lecher, Hans-Wolfgang Platzer, Stefan Rub

This study is rooted in an analysis of the establishment of EWCs under Articles 5 and 6 of the 1994 EWC Directive. This is now a mandatory procedure and completes the development of EWCs from bodies set up purely by voluntary negotiation to bodies set up within a binding statutory procedure. The study is based on cases of five (named) major European firms in a variety of industrial sectors. As well as a detailed consideration of how negotiations using the mandatory procedure took place, there are more general reflections on the quality of the actors involved, the negotiating process and the outcomes.

222 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2002