Workers' Board-Level Representation

Evidence shows that companies perform better with strong worker representation. The ETUC is demanding EU-wide legislation to guarantee workers’ seats on the governing boards of companies operating in Europe. Workers’ representatives should have equal rights to vote, receive information, ask questions and place items on the agenda, as well as training, time, access to resources and protection from dismissal.

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  • 24.06.2020 Publication

    Strengthening Workers'Voices in case of Insolvencies - ETUC Report and Guidelines

    Cover Insolvencies
    A well-functioning European insolvency framework with a focus on preventive restructuring is not only essential to safeguard employment and workers’ interests, but also to support economic growth and cross-border investment. With this context in mind, it is important for the European Trade Union movement to analyse the impact the new EU directive may have on European workers’ rights as well as to clarify the scope for national implementation.
  • 09.10.2018 Press release

    More democracy at Work! Fix the EU Company law package!

    More Democracy at Work
    The EU needs to fix the draft Company Law Package – currently being discussed by the European Parliament and Council - so that it Strengthens democracy at work including worker representation on company boards meets the needs of working people and not only of business, and moves from a 1980s idea of corporate governance to one that has learned the lessons of the crisis says the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). The ETUC is organising two events to drive home its message
  • 04.10.2018 Event

    Debate on the Company Law Package

    on 17 October 2018, 13h00 – 14h30 European Parliament, Room JAN 4Q2 The European Trade Union Confederation, the German Trade Union Confederation, the Austrian Trade Union Federation and the Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour invites you to a debate on the Company Law Package which is under discussion in the European Parliament.
  • 16.05.2018 Press release

    European Appeal: Companies and Employees – Blazing a New European Trail

    More democracy at work
    Something has gone wrong in the European Union. Four examples bear witness to this dysfunction. How can it be justified that hundreds of thousands of letter-box companies have been allowed to develop, when the aim of these ghost companies is to evade taxes, labour laws and regulations? How can it be explained that European Court of Justice decisions authorized the restriction of employees’ fundamental rights in order to support business schemes whose very objective was to circumvent the protection of employees?

Contacts

Ms Isabelle Schömann

Deputy General Secretary

Mrs Bezaye GIRMA

Administrative Assistant To Isabelle SCHÖMANN