BRUSSELS/RUHR REGION. “When companies act more and more European and global, participation in the workplace must be adapted accordingly. We call on the Commission to revise the Directive on European Works Councils to strengthen European democracy in the workplace!”
This is how CDU MEP Dennis Radtke comments on the adoption of the legislative own-initiative report on the revision of the directive on the establishment of a European Works Council with 385 to 118 votes. As rapporteur, the MEP for the Ruhr region was primarily responsible for the dossier.
“We don’t want to reinvent the wheel, but to strengthen existing law and implement it better. The many problems that European Works Councils have been regularly reporting to me for years can no longer be ignored. It is not acceptable that some works councils spend years unsuccessfully seeking a competent court to sue for their rights. That is not my idea of the rule of law.”
Among other things, the report includes proposals for a better definition of transnational matters, better access to justice and more appropriate sanctions.
“Workplace participation must finally be seen as an added value for companies and not as a hurdle. Particularly in view of the digital and green transition, in my eyes this can only succeed if European, national and local works councils are closely involved in possible restructuring processes.”
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