European Works Councils

This section focuses on the European Works Council bodies installed within multinational companies falling within the scope of the EWC Directive.

Some of those multinational companies have installed EWCs at a division level. Therefore the total number of European Works Councils is bigger than the number of Multinational companies that have an EWC.

Click here for a list of the 1258 EWC bodies ever created

The EWC database currently offers a number of free statistical graphs & tables on European Works Councils. Click here to download the pdf file.

Registered users with a paid subscription have access to the following figures:

Statistics of European Works Council bodies created per year, by reason of creation

Statistics of European Works Council bodies dissolved grouped by year of creation and by reason of dissolution

Statistics of European Works Council bodies dissolved, by year and reason of dissolution