Recasting Worker Involvement

Preface

1. Introduction. Recent trends in worker involvement
(Dr. Edgar Rose and dr. Herman Voogsgeerd)

PART 1 WHO? ACTORS AND FUCTIONS
2. Information and Consultation within the Undertaking: Employees' Right or Employer's Duty? Looking for effectiveness
(Eduardo Ales)

3. Works Councils and Trade Unions, complement or supplement? Recent experiences in dual channel countries: the Netherlands and France
(Herman Voogsgeerd)

4. Workplace Representation in Europe – are there any Single Channel Systems left?
(Edgar Rose)

PART 2 WHAT? "THE DUTCH AND THE GERMAN SYSTEM OF WORKER INVOLVEMENT COMPARED": TWO SELECTED ISSUES
5. Management of structural change: outsourcing, staff reduction and new technologies. The Dutch experience
(Zef Even)

6. Management of structural change: outsourcing, staff reduction and worker involvement in Germany
(Rainer Weinert)

7. The Admissibility of international transfer of employee data according to the Data Protection Privacy Directive and the influence of worker representatives in the Netherland
(Cathérine Jakimowicz and Marta Borrat I Frigola)

8. The legal influence of employee representation on data protection in German Enterprises
(Britta A. Mester)

PART 3 HOW TO CONTINUE? WORKER INVOLVEMENT IN AN EUROPEAN SPACE
9. The re-cast of the European Works Council Directive. A first glance
(Filip Dorssemont)

10. The concept of information and consultation in European directives
(Katja Nebe and Andrea Ritschel)

11. Cross-border workers' representation – The European Works Council in practice
(Werner Altmeyer)

12. SE and cross-border worker participation; the Dutch implementation
(Ella Gepken-Jager and Hanny Schutte-Veenstra)

13. Conclusions on worker involvement and participation
(Thomas Blanke and Wijnand Zondag)