Staunchly following the dictum of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels – “it will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave its deadly enemies the means by which it was ...

The new revision of the European Works Council Directive has been adopted by the Council of the European Union. It aims to strengthen the functioning of European Works Councils and improve the ...

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Last week, works councils and the IG Metall metalworkers and engineering union held a vote of the more than 50,000 employees of auto supplier ZF Friedrichshafen on the job cuts and wage reductions ...

On June 18, 2025, the Federal Labour Court (BAG) ruled on the appeal of a works council member (case reference: 7 AZR 50/24). The plaintiff was employed based on a fixed-term employment contract. This ...

In France, all workplaces with more than 50 employees elect representatives to Works Councils. Those workplaces with less than 50 workers elect staff representatives, who meet with management once a ...