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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

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Author(s)/Editor(s)

Peter Kerckhofs

Researcher at the ETUI-REHS until 2005. At the European Mine, Chemical and Energy workers' Federation, EMCEF, he is now responsible for coordinating EWC work in this sector.

Table of contents

More information:

The new European Works Councils Database is available, as of April 2006, on CD-ROM, for the price of 400 Euro (reductions are possible for students and trade unionists).

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For EWC members, on-line consultation and feedback is available, from the ewcdb web page .
For more info on the ETUI database: e-mail:

Link to the social dialogue website of the European Commission .

The SDA-Infopoint database contains analysis of EWC agreements based on copies of signed originals in English, French, German and Italian.

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Last modified: 23/06/2006 11:20 am
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