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L’Union européenne dispose de plusieurs instruments juridiques pour aider les États membres à tenir les travailleurs informés des processus décisionnels liés à leur emploi et à les y associer. Les comités d’entreprise européens (CEE) facilitent considérablement les relations entre les partenaires sociaux, mais la réglementation européenne sur la représentation des travailleurs est peu compréhensible et sa structure semble parfois contradictoire. La commission de l’emploi et des affaires sociales ...

European works councils (EWCs) represent over 17 million employees and are the first European representation of workers at company level. They facilitate the information, consultation and participation of employees with a focus on transnational issues. In times of crisis, including the COVID 19 crisis, relatively few workers lost their job in EU Member States with well-developed industrial relations systems where workers and their representatives have relatively strong rights.

An employer's obligation to inform employees of the conditions applicable to their contracts is regulated by Directive 91/533/EEC. Major shifts in the labour market due to demographic trends and digitalisation, spawning a growing number of non-standard employment relationships, have made it necessary to revise this directive. The European Commission therefore came forward with a proposal for a directive aimed at updating and extending the information on employment-related obligations and working ...

This note seeks to provide an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's impact assessment (IA) accompanying the above-mentioned proposal, submitted on 21 December 2017 and referred to the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. The proposal updates and replaces Directive 91/533/EEC (the Written Statement Directive, hereafter WSD), which gives employees the right to be notified in writing of the essential aspects of their contract or employment ...

L’Union européenne complète les activités des États membres en matière de droit à l’information et à la consultation des travailleurs par des mesures destinées à encourager la coopération entre les États membres ou en adoptant des exigences minimales au moyen de directives.

The Written Statement Directive obliges employers to provide employees with a written statement on the essential aspects of the work contract or employment relationship. Despite the fact that the directive was transposed into the legal systems of all Member States, the reports show several cases of its incorrect or inadequate implementation. Furthermore, new forms of employment have emerged since the directive's adoption in 1991, which it does not cover. Court of Justice jurisprudence clarifying ...

In 2014, the European Commission proposed a revision (‘IORP II’) of the existing Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORP) Directive of 2003, which covers certain occupational pension savings. These are overwhelmingly in the United Kingdom (55.9% of IORP assets) and the Netherlands (30.7%). The proposed revision aims to improve the governance, risk management, transparency and information provision of IORPs and help increase cross-border IORP activity. Stakeholders generally welcomed ...

This Implementation Appraisal concentrates on three Directives in the area of information and consultation of workers subject to simplification and/or consolidation according to the CWP 2015: 1) Directive 98/59 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies; 2) Directive 2001/23 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employees' rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings ...

La crise économique, accompagnée d'une pression concurrentielle accrue au niveau de l'Union européenne (UE), a contribué à une augmentation régulière du nombre d'entreprises traversant des processus de restructuration ou de fermeture. Dans ce contexte, une attitude ouverte au changement est essentielle pour être compétitif sur un marché mondial exigeant. Parallèlement, il est urgent d'atténuer les conséquences négatives pour les travailleurs et les employeurs des ajustements du marché du travail ...