Tuesday, May 30, 2006

[IWS] ETUI-REHS: EUROPEAN WORKS COUNCILS DATABASE [30 May 2006]

IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016
-------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education, and Health and Safety
(ETUI-REHS)

European Works Councils database [30 May 2006]
http://www.etui-rehs.org/workers_participation/projects/european_works_councils_database


Description

The European Works Councils database 2006 contains information on

   * 2204 multinationals falling within the scope of the EWC directives and on
   * 1155 European Works Council agreements.

The records are searchable by multiple criteria: company name, country or region of the headquarters, countries or region of operation, sectors of activity, merger activity...

The full text database offers more than 1470 documents, whereof

   * the English text of more than 960 EWC agreements,
   * national transposition laws of the EWC Directive,
   * documents regarding the revision of the EWC Directive,
   * judgments of the European Court of Justice,
   * documents regarding the European Social Dialogue framework,
   * more than 200 European sector and cross-sector agreements,

   * ILO and OECD texts,
   * articles on EWCs from the European Trade Union Yearbook

and new in this version:

   * around 70 substantive and global agreements concluded by EWCs or within the contexts of EWCs

Order information is found at:
http://www.etui-rehs.org/workers_participation/projects/european_works_councils_database#toc

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Director, IWS News Bureau                
Institute for Workplace Studies 
Cornell/ILR School                        
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor             
New York, NY 10016                        
                                   
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