Published every year, the report analyses the state of working Europe explaining with the aid of statistics and graphs the main trends in terms of Europe’s macro-economic situation, its labour market development, the situation of wages and collective bargaining, and worker participation.
The focus of this year’s Benchmarking report is on the lessons learned – or not learned – from eight years of economic crisis and austerity policy. The findings point to policy failures and to the need to redefine alternatives in order to get Europe back on a sustainable growth path. The deterioration of the labour market and social situation in the EU, along with the appointment of a new Commission last autumn, have led to some renewed policy initiatives that seek to restore growth as a means of addressing the situation. The most notable of these initiatives is the Annual Growth Survey with its three pillars: the Investment Plan, fiscal responsibility and structural reforms.
An infographic presenting main findings of the report is available at the ETUI website
Chapter 4 of the Report deals with workers' participation. It discusses:
recent developments on EU level aiming at refitting information and consultation rights;
transposition of key provisions related to articulation in the recast EWC Directive 2009/38/EC as well as looks at contractual arrangements on articulation in EWC agreements;
discusses two dimensions of articulation: horizontal (between various actors) and vertical (between various levels of information and consultation);
within the dimension of horizontal articulation discusses the role of health and safety representatives at workplace and their (possible) interlinking with EWCs;
presents an overview of health and safety representation in European workplaces;
presents findings on the (creeping) europeanisation of board-level employee representation;
discusses the position of workers' rights in EU company law.
The full report can be downloaded and purchased (printed version) via the www.etui.org website
Download Chapter 4: Articulating workers’ participation (EN)
Publication date : 2015
Number of pages : 80