Employee consultation and information in multinational corporations

274 Pages·2017·20.87 MB·English

by  Vandamme, J.

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
MULTINATIONALS
Volume 7
EMPLOYEE CONSULTATION &
INFORMATION IN
MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS
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EMPLOYEE CONSULTATION &
INFORMATION IN
MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS
Edited by
JACQUES VANDAMME
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Employee
&
Consultation
Information in
Multinational
Corporations
Edited by Jacques Vandamme
CROOM HELM
London • Sydney • Dover, New Hampshire
©1986 Jacques Vandamme
Croom Helm Ltd, Provident House, Burrell Row,
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Employee consultation and information in
multinational corporations.
1. Management - Employee participation
2. International business enterprises -
Management
I. Vandamme, Jacques
658.3'152 HD5650
ISBN 0-7099-2624-3
Croom Helm, 51 Washington Street, Dover,
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Employee consultation and information in multinational
corporations.
1. International business enterprises-Europe-
employees-addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Collective
bargaining-international business enterprises-Europe-
addresses, essays, lectures. 3. International business
enterprises-employees-legal status, laws, etc.-
Europe-addresses, essays, lectures. I. Vandamme, J.
HD2755.5.E47 1985 331.25 85-21264
ISBN 0-7099-2624-3
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Jacques Vandamme
PART I
THE DIVERSITY OF NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
1 : The Main Systems of Employee Information and
Consultation in European Industrial Relations
Roger Blanpain
13
2: The Main Systems for Informing External Parties in
Financial and Commercial Legislation
Sidney Gray
39
3: Does Formal Policy or Law as used in Europe,
Contribute to Improved Employee Information and Participation?
Frank A. Heller
69
PART II
THE INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN CONTEXT
4: Initiatives undertaken by International Organisations in the
Field of Employee Information and Consultation in Multinational
Undertakings (I.L.O., O.E.C.D., U.N.)
Geoffrey Hamilton
95
5: Information and Consultation of Employees in Community
Law relating to Changes in the Undertakings and to the
Statute of Companies
Jacques Vandamme
117
6: The Proposal for a Directive on Procedures for Informing and
Consulting the Employees of Undertakings with Complex
Structures, in particular Transnational Undertakings
Francois Vandamme
149
PART III
THE ECONOMIC CONTEXT
7: The Economic Implications of Informing and Consulting
Employees in Multinational Undertakings
Sylvain Plasschaert
187
8: Autonomy of Decision Making by Subsidiaries of
Multinational Enterprises
Daniel Van Den Bulcke
219
COMMENT ARIES
1 -The Information and Consultation of Employees. The Point
of View of the European Trade Union Confederation
(E.T.U.C.)
Ernst Piehl 251
2 -The Information and Consultation of Employees. The Point
of View of the Industries of the European Community
(U.N.I.C.E.)
Bernard Sassen 259
INTRODUCTION
Jacques VANDAMME
RESITUATING THE DEBATE
The study presented by the "GROUP FOR EUROPEAN
POLICY STUDIES" at the request of the Institute for
Research and Information on Multinationals is
intended primarily to place the problem of employee
information and consultation in multinational
undertakings in the context of an overall approach
to the problem. Whilst it may be true that the
debate on this question in the European Community
is centred around the proposal for a directive(l)
submitted by the Commission and known as the
VREDELING-RICHARD(2) proposal, the first version of
which was submitted in October, 1980, with a new
draft being submitted on July 8, 1983, we feel,
however, that although this proposal may be
considered as constituting the "event" as it were,
the problem posed by this proposal is one which
has, none the less, a much more general scope.
A better appreciation of the overall situation
in all its aspects should allow one to better
situate discussions on the specific proposal in
question.
1 - THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
It is necessary to take into account the
national and international environment which forms
the background to the debate.
The national environment is characterised
primarily by the development of employee
information and consultation systems in the
national legislations of most European countries.
In certain cases these are linked to experimental
worker participation in company management; in
other cases they have developed outside company
management structures. (R. BLANPAIN).
1