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The annual plenary meeting of the Siemens Europe Committee (SEC), as their European works council is named, was held by video conference during four days between 13 and 20 May 2020. This meeting was required to decide on a change in number of mandates resulting from the energy division spin-off with 91,000 employees (almost a quarter of Siemens' global workforce). Previously, each country had one mandate for every 5,000 employees, but in the future it will be for every 4,000 (Germany: previously 15,000, in the future 14,000). The SEC was founded in 1995 and to this day operates on the basis of a "voluntary" EWC agreement.
Report of the meeting : https://www.dialog-igmetall.de/international/virtual-meeting-of-the-sec
On the first day, delegates from Eastern, North-Western and South-Western Europe met for separate meetings. These regional committees have existed since 2008 (see report in EWC News 2/2008). On the second day the delegates from the five business units met before the actual plenary meeting which took place on the third and fourth days. Since the IPO in September 2020, Siemens has only a minority stake in Siemens Energy, which is why an independent European works council is now being established there (see report in EWC News 4/2019). A working group with 17 delegates from eleven countries currently acts as a sort of "provisional EWC".
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