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Country of headquarter

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Applicable law

  • Belgium
  • Finland
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom

Legal basis

  • art.3 EWC (UK pre-directive body)
  • art.13 EWC (pre-directive)

Agreement type

  • original installation agreement
  • renegotiated (change of terms of agreement)

Reason for installation

  • installation from scratch

Reason for dissolution

  • acquisition
  • conversion into other legal basis
  • dissolved (no longer falling within the scope of the Directive)
  • dissolved (sold off)
  • not confirmed

Geographical scope

  • EEA
  • EFTA (EEA + CH)

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
      • inclusion and exclusion of countries, companies, persons etc.
      • candidate countries
      • inclusion of reps from new member states
      • inclusion of reps from countries beyond EU
      • employees not represented in EWC
      • multiple EWCs within one company
    • legal constitutional matters
    • 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: 03.12.2025
Displaying 1 - 9 of 9
Company name EWC body name EWC body status Agreement date Applicable law
MAN Truck & Bus MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG forum not active 13/11/2006 Germany
Keramik Laufen Laufen Euro-Forum not active 19/09/1996 Germany
Deere Deere European Conference of Workers’ Representatives active 17/09/1996 Germany
BICC BICC Cables European Consultative Forum not active 12/09/1996 United Kingdom
Ahlstrom OYJ Ahlstrom Munksjö EWC active 03/06/1996 Finland
GMAC Financial Services General Motors Acceptance Corp. European Employee Forum not active 30/05/1996 Germany
Wärtsilä Wärtsilä Company Council not active 21/05/1996 Finland
Tractebel - Suez Lyonnaise Des Eaux Tractebel European Social Dialogue Body not active 30/04/1996 Belgium
Bertelsmann SE & CO. KGAA Bertelsmann European Works Council active 21/09/1994 Germany
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