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Transposition of the EWC Directive
21/05/2013 - Italy - Amendments to Legislative Decree No. 74/2002, March 2011
25/04/2012 - New European Directive encourages creation of more, and more effective, European Works Councils (CLIP)
01/03/2012 - Polish transposition law of 1/12/2011 - only available in Polish
13/12/2011 - Finnish transposition law of the EU Directive 2009/38/EC (English unofficial translation)
24/11/2011 - Commission requests four countries to take on new rules for European Works Councils
New agreements
23/05/2013 - English translation of the Schur International EWC agreement of 1998 now available
23/05/2013 - English translation of EBR Amcor Europe Agreement of 2002 now available
14/05/2013 - UPS EWC agreement of 17/04/2012
14/05/2013 - Veolia Transdev EWC agreement of 16/07/2012
10/05/2013 - wording of the Rezidor EWC Agreement after Amendment in 2008
Events
02/05/2013 - Germany: mini-increase in return for job security at Lufthansa
29/04/2013 - Germany: 5.7% increase over 26 months for Deutsche Post employees
23/04/2013 - Spain: competitiveness agreement at Ford Almussafes
23/04/2013 - Italy: Finmeccanica signs agreement on new industrial relations system to better manage future restructurings and improve competitiveness
23/04/2013 - BASF and the Catalonian Government (Spain) agree to the first dual training program at the transnational scale
Other documents
15/04/2013 - Valeo agreement on corporate social responsibility of July 2012
25/03/2013 - Global agreement between Codere and Uni-Global Union
04/02/2013 - Kraft Foods European Framework Agreement of 2007
24/01/2013 - Telenor/Uni Global union global agreement of 18/1/2013
24/01/2013 - Securitas/Uni Global Union/Transport global agreement of 18/10/2012
Publications
30/03/2012 - Manual for European Workers' Representatives: 01- How to make your meetings more successful
06/03/2012 - Benchmarking Working Europe 2012
16/05/2011 - PaRL Newsletter Issue 3, May 2011 published by SDA
13/05/2011 - Hungarian trade union publishes info clip about EWCs
29/04/2011 - EU : interview of Romuald Jagodzinski, ETUI researcher and coordinator of the 2011 edition of Benchmarking Working Europe, the assessment carried out by the union institute on the EU 2020 Strategy
Links
20/03/2012 - European Commission database on transnational company agreements
29/11/2011 - FNV Bondgenoten - Network site for EWC members (in Dutch)
05/10/2010 - ewc-networking - an EWC portal in German or Italian for the regions of Tirol, Südtirol and Trentino
24/06/2010 - European Commission, DG Competition, Mergers
11/09/2009 - Solidarnosc web page on European Works Councils (in Polish)
Revision of the EWC Directive
29/03/2011 - EWCs should get stronger influence (in Dutch only)
24/06/2010 - EU: ETUC and BusinessEurope's joint interpretation of some of the provisions of the new EWC directive
01/12/2009 - Collection of documents regarding the revision of the EWC Directive
27/08/2009 - Ver.Di presentation on the new EWC Directive
26/06/2009 - EWC Directive 2009/38/EC
