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Following last year’s successful takeover bid, by the IT consulting and outsourcing services group Capgemini SE, for Altran (50,000 employees), the Altran group of companies joined Capgemini in spring 2020, thus creating an entity with a global workforce of 270,000. Capgemini management subsequently altered the composition of its international works council, which had been created in 2001, to cover incoming employees from Altran, and decided that the Altran EWC should be abolished, “as EWC provisions are not intended to apply within groups whose parent company” is constituted as a European company (SE). Management then set up a special negotiating body on 15 October 2020, to negotiate a new agreement on employee involvement in the SE. At the request of Altran’s employee representatives, who denounced the abolition of their EWC at a time when they were being affected by reorganisations, management agreed to negotiate a second agreement “maintaining temporary and selective representation for information transfer and monitoring purposes (…), attached to the international works council’s future executive committee”. This body is due to be created in June, once the Altran EWC has been dissolved, subject to the new agreement on Capgemini SE worker involvement being signed at the same time. Capgemini management and the SNB thus signed two agreements on 23 April: firstly an additional and temporary Memorandum of Understanding relating to the Altran information transfer and monitoring committee, and secondly an agreement on the Capgemini SE international works council. The international dimension is conferred by the article on the council’s composition, which includes invited members from each of the group’s four regions (Latin America, North America, Asia-Pacific and Africa) and two countries: India and the United Kingdom. The international works council meets four times a year, with two of these meetings being held via videoconferencing. The consultation will “be held prior to the final decision to implement the plan being taken, in order to guarantee the principle of useful effect.” It should be noted that not all SNB members have signed these agreements: in particular the four French trade unions, some of which have announced that they wish to challenge the agreements in court, have withheld their signature.
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