"Confidentiality is a cornerstone workplace issue, involving the protection of sensitive company and employee matters, and of individual workers' and collective rights to information and consultation (I&C), board-level representation, health and safety (H&S) representation, and privacy. For many worker representatives, however, it is not always clear what and when information will be shared with them, nor the extent to which they will be consulted on key workplace issues. For example, in the restructuring of transnational companies, European Works Council (EWC) involvement in related processes has long been shown to be limited (De Spiegelaere 2016), and EWCs are often informed only after strategic decisions have been taken. In part, this may reflect limited dialogue in the contexts in which national I&C structures are comparatively weaker.

This handbook aims to provide readers with an introductory reference to key regulations and concepts concerning workplace representation bodies and the regulation of confidential information in the workplace in various EU Member States and the United Kingdom. Each country chapter presents an overview of the industrial relations setting written by the contributing editor. The remainder is based on 2020 reports by national experts and more recent sources. "

Support: Digital;Paper

ISBN (PDF) : 978-2-87452-720-3

Legal deposit : D/2024/10.574/22