Directive is to improve the right to information and to consultation of employees in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings.The arrangements for informing and consulting employees shall be defined and implemented in such a way as to ensure their effectiveness and to enable the undertaking or group of undertakings to take decisions effectively. Matters shall be considered to be transnational where they concern the Community-scale undertaking or Community-scale group of undertakings as a whole, or at least two undertakings or establishments of the undertaking or group situated in two different Member States.Direttva è intesa a migliorare il diritto all’informazione e alla consultazione dei lavoratori nelle imprese e nei gruppi di imprese di dimensioni comunitarie. Le modalità di informazione e consultazione dei lavoratori sono definite e attuate in modo da garantirne l’efficacia e consentire un processo decisionale efficace nell’impresa o nel gruppo di imprese. Sono considerate questioni transnazionali quelle riguardanti l’impresa di dimensioni comunitarie o il gruppo di imprese di dimensioni comunitarie nel loro complesso o almeno due imprese o stabilimenti dell’impresa o del gruppo ubicati in due Stati membri diversi. Directiva tiene por objeto la mejora del derecho de información y consulta a los trabajadores en las empresas y grupos de empresas de dimensión comunitaria.Las modalidades de información y consulta a los trabajadores se definirán y aplicarán de modo que se garantice su efectividad y se permita una toma de decisiones eficaz de la empresa o del grupo de empresas.Se considerarán transnacionales las cuestiones que afectan al conjunto de la empresa o grupo de empresas de dimensión comunitaria o al menos a dos empresas o establecimientos de la empresa o del grupo situados en dos Estados miembros diferentes. Das Ziel dieser Richtlinie ist die Stärkung des Rechts auf Unterrichtung und Anhörung der Arbeitnehmer in gemeinschaftsweit operierenden Unternehmen und Unternehmensgruppen.Die Modalitäten der Unterrichtung und Anhörung der Arbeitnehmer werden so festgelegt und angewandt, dass ihre Wirksamkeit gewährleistet ist und eine effiziente Beschlussfassung des Unternehmens oder der Unternehmensgruppe ermöglicht wird. directive a pour objectif d’améliorer le droit à l’information et à la consultation des travailleurs dans les entreprises de dimension communautaire et les groupes d’entreprises de dimension communautaire. Les modalités d’information et de consultation des travailleurs sont définies et mises en œuvre de manière à en assurer l’effet utile et à permettre une prise de décision efficace de l’entreprise ou du groupe d’entreprises. Sont considérées comme transnationales les questions qui concernent l’ensemble de l’entreprise de dimension communautaire ou du groupe d’entreprises de dimension communautaire, ou au moins deux entreprises situés dans deux États membres différents.

1. JOINT REPRESENTATION UNION REPRESENTATION
Union section
Trade union delegate
Industrial or other sector
union
Employees' delegate
Works Council
Employee Council
(officials)
Strike Committee

2. WORKERS DELEGATE
Basic representation body for those working in companies with 6
to 49 employees.
Elected with secret and individual vote
Length of term: 4 years
Hour credit for union activities: 15
Vacancies are assigned based on number of votes

3. COMPOSITION: 1 delegate in companies with 6 to 30
employees
3 delegates in companies with 31 to 49
workers
COMPETENCES: The same competences and guarantees
of works councils
DECISIONS AND AGREEMENTS: si prendono a
maggioranza nel caso di 3 delegati.

4. CHARACTERISTICS
Productive centers with over 50 workers
Election, secret vote, proportion with number of votes obtained,
and presented lists
Representation 4 years, extendable if new elections are not held
Hour credit proportional to number of workers

5. Right to information.
Right of association
Right to participate in the organization of working condition.
(Labor Reform)
Hour credit. (Labor Reform)
Premises for activities and announcement board

6. HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE
JOINT COMMITTEE
EUROPEAN COMMITTEE

7. • A company is considered a european society if it has
more than 1000 workers in the EU, or employs 150
workers in at least two States.
• We call for the creation of a European Council for reps,
or of 100 workers in two workplaces located in diffrent
States.
• The company must create a bargaining committee
aimed at creating a European works council

8. Law 10/1997, 24th April. Direttiva 94/45/EC
Law 10/2011, 19th May,
Transposition of Directive 2009/38/EC
Right to information and consultation

9. Doubts that institutions organizes:
- workers' reps
- employers
Implementation of EWCs in Europe is34,8%.
In Spain it is 14,6%.
Percentages are lowering, effect of the crisis

10. Economic crisis
Attacks to workers' rights
High rates of job losses and precarious
employment
Loss of importance in the industrial sector
Changing company structures

11. Stagnant collective bargaining
Debilitation of trade union organisations
Out sourcing in foreign countries
Risk for European social model

12. National realities, retirement from European
environmente
Dispersion of initiatives. Trade union federations
Weak trade union strength facing negative
companies
Interpretation on behalf of employers, right to
information I
Language barriers, key element

13. Trade union intercomunication
Agreements with global brands
Knowledge of local companies
Exchange of national information
CSR as a strategy
Training, Information and Qualifications

15. Continuous information and assesment

16. Internacional@chtjugt.net
Emilio Ferrero López

17. Translation notes
slide 1: Workers' representation, Spain
slide 2:Joint representation
slide 3: Employee delegate
slide 4: Works councils
slide 5: workers' reps rights
slide 6:Works council, representation council
slide 7: European Works Council, MuMMIA
slide 8:EWC Spain
slide 9:EWC Spain
slide 10: current scenario
slide 11: current scenario
slide 12: Weaknesses CEE
slide 13: Strengthening CEE
slide 14: European works councils, Impulse
consultation, information, EWC
slide 15: European works council, strengths
Companies, EWC, workers, trade unions
slide 16: many thanks