Inform, consult, impose
A new directive has unions cheering and company bosses fuming
IN A recent speech on the future of the European Union, Lionel Jospin, the French prime minister, argued that, after a decade in which the EU's emphasis had been on building a single market, it was time to concentrate on “social Europe”. So this week the French were delighted by an agreement of the Council of Ministers on a new directive, strengthening the obligations on European firms to “inform and consult” workers' representatives about company strategy.
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