Article: WORKER CONSULTATION: COMMISSION TAKES INITIATIVE TO SAVE EUROPEAN COMPANY

Summary: Anxious to cash in on the success of the Works Councils Directive adopted on September 22, 1994, and to end the deadlock over key company law proposals which, by virtue of their social dimension, have been gathering dust for several years on the Council of Ministers' desks, the European Commission on November 14 presented a Communication on worker consultation which promises to rekindle a good many quarrels. At stake is the possibility for public limited companies, mutual societies, associations, foundations and other cooperatives to establish themselves directly under European, rather than national, law, in accordance with the European social model founded on ...

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