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Claudia Saller, UNI Europa’s Policy Officer for multinational companies, commented on the handbook from a European trade union perspective. It offers very concrete advice for trade union practitioners, touching on issues like how to deal with confidentiality or how to calculate the number of negotiating bodies’ members. It warns about possible “traps” for employees and shows how the creation of an SE can actually be instrumentalised to avoid worker participation. This handbook will certainly also be useful for anybody working with European Works Councils (EWC): Issues like high quality information and consultation or communication across cultural and language borders are challenges for SE employee representatives just as much as they are for EWCs.



At the conference, organised by the European Worker Participation Competence Centre (EWPCC) of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in cooperation with OPZZ, Solidarność, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Hans Böckler Foundation and CPS “Dialog”, employee representatives from Allianz SE and Equens SE, both covered by UNI Europa Finance, presented their work in the respective SE works councils. Allianz SE’s works council has recently signed a European framework agreement on work related stress.

The conference’s discussion also turned around the concept of a sustainable company and how good corporate governance can lead to environmental, financial and social sustainability.



Link to SE Handbook: http://www.etui.org/Publications2/Books/Worker-involvement-in-the-European-Company-SE



Link to Allianz agreement on work related stress: https://www.allianz.com/static-resources/en/press/media/documents/v_1307372785000/agreement_on_guidelines_concerning_work_related_stress.pdf