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Legal basis

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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
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    • cooperation/link to national level
    • priority of information EWC & national level
    • principle of subsidiarity
    • access to company premises
    • reporting back to employees about EWC proceedings
    • appointing/contact with supervisory board
  • EWC's role
  • changes affecting EWC
  • co-operation with management
  • continuity in case of merger
Last update EWCdb: 03.12.2025
Displaying 1 - 18 of 18
Company name EWC body name EWC body status Agreement date Applicable law
BNP Paribas Fortis BNP Paribas European Works Council active 11/09/2008 France
West Pharmaceutical Services West Pharmaceutical Services European Works Council active 31/03/2008 Germany
VWR International VWR EWC active 14/06/2006 Germany
UTC Fire & Security Chubb EWC active 09/03/2005 United Kingdom
Novelis Novelis European Works Council active 01/01/2005
Groupe SEB SEB Group European Council active 02/12/2003 France
BESIX Group SBB/BBM European Works Council active 03/10/2003 Belgium
ThyssenKrupp ThyssenKrupp European Works Council active 13/05/2003 Germany
Sequana Arjo Wiggins, Antalis and Carbonless EWC not active 01/02/2003 France
Aller Group Aller Group EWC active 24/09/2001 Denmark
Essent Essent European Works Council not active 14/09/2001 Netherlands
EADS Airbus Integrated European Committee not active 26/06/2001 Netherlands
ThyssenKrupp ThyssenKrupp European Works Council active 03/11/1999 Germany
Reed Elsevier Reed Elsevier European Works Council active 17/09/1998 Netherlands
DS Smith DS Smith European Works Council active 03/09/1996 Ireland
ITT-Industries ITT Automotive European Works Council not active 28/08/1996 Germany
Securicor Group Securicor (G4S) European Employee Forum active 19/06/1996 Ireland
Seagram Seagram European Council for Information and Dialogue not active 15/04/1996 Germany
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