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Article: SOCIAL DIALOGUE: COURT RULES THAT FIRMS CANNOT AVOID EUROPEAN WORKS COUNCIL OBLIGATIONS.(European Court of Justice)
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- European Report
- Article date:
- January 14, 2004
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Kuehne and Nagel AG & Co KG, based in Germany, is part of the diversified Kuehne and Nagel group of companies, which is of a pan-European scale. The parent company is based in Switzerland, where efforts to form a European Works Council have so far not succeeded. The 1994 European Directive on the establishment of a European Works Council (94/45/EC) envisages the formation of European Works Councils for multinational companies or groups of companies of a European size. When the central management of a group is based in a third country and it does not have any designated members in any EU Member State, the management of the firm in the group employing the largest number of ...