scholarly journals Multinational companies in the EU and European Works Councils

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-206
Author(s):  
Christoph Dörrenbächer ◽  
Michael Wortmann
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Works Councils ◽  
The Eu

Variation in Approaches to European Works Councils in Multinational Companies

ILR Review ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 618-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Marginson ◽  
Jonathan Lavelle ◽  
Javier Quintanilla ◽  
Duncan Adam ◽  
Rocío Sánchez-Mangas
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Works Councils

scholarly journals Want Sustainable Productivity? Incentivize Investments in Innovation

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
Dr. Ron Basu
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
Additional Funding ◽  
And Training ◽  
Sustainable Productivity ◽  
The Eu

Research and development (R&D) and innovations derived from R&D have been argued to be the engine of economic growth for hundreds of years. With supporting data, the paper establishes the vital role of innovation in the value chain and sustainable growth of economies. In order to convert these strategies into the tangible outcome, we need right tools, skills, and funding. Tools are provided by research methodologies underpinned by the application of project management principles. Skills come from higher education and training in science, engineering, and technology. The sources of funding are mainly from the governments and private industries where the latter provides the major share. To generate additional funding, the author argues that governments should offer a tax break to multinational companies for additional investment in R&D above the threshold of R&D intensity. For the ‘post- Brexit’ United Kingdom a new R&D strategy is of particular importance when the supply of the EU research money will discontinue.

scholarly journals Παράγοντες επίδρασης στην αποτελεσματική λειτουργία των οργάνων διεθνικής συμμετοχής σε πολυεθνικές επιχειρήσεις: πραγματολογικό υλικό από τις στάσεις των αντιπροσώπων των εργαζομένων

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Θεόδωρος Κουτρούκης
Keyword(s):  
Works Councils ◽  
Employee Representation ◽  
Worker Participation ◽  
Effi Ciency ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Eu

<p>The Greek case of worker participation<br />indicates that, there was considerable<br />unwillingness of IR actors to promote<br />such procedures. Nonetheless, during<br />the last decade, a progress in employee<br />involvement schemes has been made<br />within the subsidiaries of multinational<br />companies (MNCs), thanks to the EU<br />Directive on European Works Councils. This<br />paper examines the factors that contribute<br />the effi ciency of worker participation in the<br />MNCs by reviewing the existing literature and<br />enriching it with some new research fi ndings<br />from the employee side. The conclusions of<br />this study indicate that there are some good<br />practices of worker participation schemes,<br />which are linked with several contributing<br />factors concerning the nature of the MNC<br />and the structure of employee representation<br />as well. Thus, that paper could affect the<br />improvement of the traditional industrial<br />relations policies within MNCs.</p>

Vennootschappelijke medezeggenschap in de EU en Nederland

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robbert van het Kaar
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Employee Participation ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Works Councils ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
The Core ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
Board Level ◽  
The Eu

Employee participation at board level in the EU and the Netherlands The core issue of this article is employee participation at board level, as distinguished from information and consultation through union representatives and works councils. The author gives an overview of recent developments at EU-level and several EU-countries, with a special focus on the Netherlands. The analysis takes account of changes in both legislation and practice.

Towards a European Economic Criminal Law of Human Rights

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-35
Author(s):  
Adán Nieto
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
Due Diligence ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Eu

The work proposes the emergence of a new sector within economic criminal law whose objective would be the protection of human rights and the sanctioning of multinational companies. This new sector should be promoted by the EU, which in recent years and from various sources, has been enacting a set of directives and regulations that affect this area. The economic criminal law of human rights would complement the possibilities already offered by international criminal law to sanction these conducts. The basis of the new incriminations found in this work connects with the obligations to establish compliance measures (due diligence) that have been established in the United Nations Guiding Principles for Multinational Enterprises and also with the new duties of transparency linked to non-financial information.

scholarly journals Convergence and Disparities in European Industrial Relations

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 127-146
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Skorupińska
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Works Councils ◽  
Employee Representation ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
A Company ◽  
The Eu

The aim of the article is to present the areas of the greatest convergence and disparities in industrial relations in the EU. This paper also aims to identify the causes of such situations and to determine the influence of the economic crisis on the shape of these relations and the attempt to achieve convergence. The study is composed of an introduction, three main sections and a conclusion. Following the introduction, the section 2 discusses the evolutionary process of European industrial relations and social dialogue. The next section is devoted to employee participation in the management of a company, the area of greatest convergence in industrial relations. Special emphasis is placed on the dual system of employee representation (trade unions and works councils), and in particular on the European Works Councils. The final section examines the greatest disparities between the old and new EU member states with reference to trade union density, range, and the level of collective bargaining. This is followed by a summary of conclusions.

scholarly journals State Aids and Tax rulings: an assessment of the Commission’s recent decisional practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-79
Author(s):  
Amedeo Arena
Keyword(s):  
Tax Competition ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Member States ◽  
Fiscal Union ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Economic Rationale ◽  
Analytical Assessment ◽  
Constituent Elements ◽  
State Aids ◽  
The Eu

Tax rulings are binging decisions that taxpayers may seek from tax authorities to determine in advance how certain transactions will be treated fiscally. However, tax rulings can have an “alternative use”: that of granting a particularly advantageous fiscal treatment to specific taxpayers, typically large multinational groups willing to invest and create jobs in the tax jurisdiction concerned, without extending it to other taxpayers and without triggering a tax war with other jurisdictions. This article focuses on the European Commission’s enforcement of State aids rules against certain EU Member States in respect of tax rulings issue to a number of multinational companies. After a brief account of the economic rationale for tax rulings and their potential relevance in the context of EU tax competition, the article provides an overview of the Commission’s individual and general measures designed to attract multinational investors in return for significant fiscal advantages. The central part of the article provides an analytical assessment of the Commission’s on-going and closed proceedings on tax ruling practices, having regard to the four constituent elements of the notion of State aid. Regard is then had to the peculiar challenges involved with recovery of State aids granted in the form of tax rulings and, finally, to the systemic implications of the Commission’s initiatives for the division of competences between the EU and its Member States and for the establishment of a fiscal union.

scholarly journals German board-level employee representation in multinational companies: Patterns of transnational articulation

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Rosenbohm ◽  
Thomas Haipeter
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Corporate Structure ◽  
Works Councils ◽  
Employee Representation ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Supervisory Boards ◽  
National Power ◽  
Board Level

We investigate codetermination on German supervisory boards of multinational companies and pose two questions. First, under what conditions does board-level representation constitute a power resource for employee representatives? Second, how does board-level representation articulate with European Works Councils? We conclude that factors related to corporate structure – head office location, the level at which supervisory boards are established – play a decisive role in determining the power resources available to employee representatives. Articulation with European Works Councils depends on the adoption of a strategic approach whereby German employee representatives deploy the power resources derived from national codetermination rights at the transnational level, or use the mechanisms of transnational employee representation to compensate where such national power resources are lacking.

scholarly journals European Sugar Market – Impact of Quota System

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 1825-1838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irena Benešová ◽  
Helena Řezbová ◽  
Luboš Smutka ◽  
Karel Tomšík ◽  
Adriana Laputková
Keyword(s):  
Current System ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Sugar Production ◽  
Quota System ◽  
Sugar Market ◽  
Production Area ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Production Capacities ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Eu

The European agricultural market has been criticized for its heavy regulations and subsidization. The sugar market is one of the most regulated ones; however, this will change radically in 2017 when the current system of production quotas will end. The aim of this paper is to present the basic characteristics of the EU quota sugar market. The analysis identifies the main drivers of EU sugar market and their position within the EU sugar market. The paper identifies especially those drivers/companies/alliances which take control over the EU sugar production realized under the quota production system. The paper also highlights the level of EU sugar market concentration and also identifies those countries and companies which are the main leaders in the sugar production area realized under the quota system. Based on the results deriving from the paper, it is possible to characterize the EU sugar market as a heavily concentrated one – nearly 75% (10 mil. tonnes) of the quota is controlled by five multinational companies only; these companies are operating more than 50% of all the available sugar plants located in the EU. These multinational alliances are also in control of the production capacities of their subsidiaries. In most countries, this causes serious problems as the given quota is controlled by one or two producers only. The EU sugar market is extremely concentrated especially if we take into consideration the location of each alliance’s headquarters. The majority of production capacities are under (the) control of especially German and French companies. These two countries are also the main beneficiaries in relation to the EU sugar production quota system.

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