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"Ausgelöst durch die Globalisierung, den Veränderungen auf den Finanz- und Kapitalmärkten, steigenden Wettbewerbsdruck, den demographi-schen Wandel, sowie den sich weiterhin ergebenden Herausforderungen, steigt der Stellenwert richtungweisender Konzepte einer nachhaltigen Standort- und Arbeitsplatzsicherung zunehmend. Darüber hinaus müssen Antworten auf Fragen zukünftiger Arbeitsformen und der Zu-kunft sozialer Sicherungssysteme in der Gesellschaft gefunden werden. Zielgruppenspezifische Beratung für Gewerkschaften und Betriebsräte sowie wissenschaftliche Forschung können auf der Suche nach betrieblichen und gesamtgesellschaftlichen Lösungen Unterstützung bei der Bewältigung dieser Herausforderungen anbieten.
Solche Beratungs- und Forschungsformen waren bislang kaum Gegen-stand von Publikationen. Dieses Buch schafft Abhilfe und richtet sich sowohl an Gewerkschaftsvertreter/innen und Betriebsräte als auch an interessierte Fachleute (Wissenschaft, Stiftungen, Berater, etc.)."

"In March 2010, the EU Commission finally made available the so-called ‘Ernst and Young study' on the operation and the impacts of the Statute for a European Company. Shortly afterwards the Commission launched an online consultation on the results of the study. In July 2010, the European Commission produced a summary report on the replies to the online consultation.This ETUI paper brings together a critical analysis of the consultation procedure, the Commission consultation summary and the ETUI's reply to the consultation on the Ernst&Young study.

In the Inventory (included as part 1 of this paper) the question of the value of a web-based public consultation is raised. How should the individual contributions be weighted? What is the relevance of the contribution of, let's say, BUSINESSEUROPE compared to the contribution of an individual citizen from behind his desk? As demonstrated in the Inventory, the Commission is very selective in highlighting the contributions it received, although the suggestion is that every number counts. Surprisingly, Commission Services neither treats critical remarks seriously nor confirms or refutes them. Serious criticism that could upset the conclusions is ignored.

The ETUI's reply to the consultation – compiled with support from the members of the SEEurope network – is included as part 2 of the paper. There have been strong critics of the Ernst&Young study and its conclusions, notably the seriously deficient methodology that, for example, does not distinguish in its country analysis between normal and shelf SEs. Moreover, the representativeness of the people interviewed was questioned, as was the narrow view taken by the authors, which is mainly the perspective of the majority shareholder. In fact, the elaborated recommendations went far beyond the scope of the study (which was the evaluation of the SE Regulation, not the SE Directive), whereas no in-depth research on employee involvement was undertaken. In fact, the emphasis put on the supposed negative role of employee involvement rather contributes to conserve the ‘myths about participation in the SE'."

"This article looks at recent developments with regard to employee involvement in the European Company (SE) and in this light analyses the SE's impact on European industrial relations. The article argues that the SE has indeed brought some innovation and new impetus at both national and European level. Thus, the SE might be better than its poor ‘reputation' might suggest. This is all the more true with regard to the limited (new) rights granted by the SE legislation and the background of its introduction: the SE was never meant primarily as a social policy instrument, but rather to foster the cross-border mobility of companies in the EU internal market. "