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Agreement in force

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Country of headquarter

  • United Kingdom

Applicable law

  • Ireland
  • United Kingdom

Legal basis

  • art.3 EWC (UK pre-directive body)
  • art.6 EWC
  • art.13 EWC (pre-directive)
  • art.14 EWC
  • SE information and consultation procedure
  • SE works council

Agreement type

  • original installation agreement
  • renegotiated (renewal or extension)

Reason for installation

  • installation from scratch

Reason for dissolution

  • acquisition
  • conversion into other legal basis
  • dissolved (sold off)
  • merger

Geographical scope

  • EEA
  • EFTA (EEA + CH)
  • EU

Selected provisions

  • Constitutional issues: composition, coverage, establishment
    • EWC composition: institutional matters
      • seat distribution other than by country
      • threshold for seat allocation
      • rotation system
      • representation of different categories of employees
      • selection/appointment of EWC members
      • anti-domination & balanced representation clauses
      • guests/external parties
      • gender balance
    • EWC composition: personal matters
    • Coverage
    • legal constitutional matters
      • reference to other directive(s)
      • questionable EWCs
      • applicability/enforceability of agreement
      • applicable law
      • post 1996 agt making ref. to art.13
      • legal personality
      • EWC legal seat
      • conflict resolution
      • confidentiality of agreement
      • joint venture based EWCs
      • termination of EWC agreement
    • reference to subsidiary requirements, representative agent, etc.
  • information & consultation process
  • meetings
  • EWCs and the outside world
  • functioning and facilities/means for EWC
  • articulation between I&C levels
  • EWC's role
  • changes affecting EWC
  • co-operation with management
  • continuity in case of merger
Last update EWCdb: 19.12.2025
Displaying 1 - 9 of 9
Company name EWC body name EWC body status Agreement date Applicable law
Imperial Brands Imperial Tobacco European Employee Forum active 30/03/2011 United Kingdom
Northern Foods Northern Foods Employee Communication and Consultation Forum active 14/12/1999 United Kingdom
BTR BTR European Employees' Forum not active 12/01/1999 Ireland
Rexam Rexam European Forum (REF) not active 27/01/1998 Ireland
Allied Domecq Allied Domecq European Council not active 06/09/1996 United Kingdom
HSBC Holdings - Midland Bank HSBC European Council not active 06/09/1996 United Kingdom
Scottish & Newcastle Scottish & Newcastle Company Forum not active 11/07/1996 United Kingdom
ASW Holdings ASW European Conference not active 28/05/1996
Imperial Chemical Industries ICI European Consultative Forum not active 25/03/1996 United Kingdom
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