SOCIAL DIALOGUE : MEMBER STATES FAIL TO TRANSPOSE DIRECTIVE ON EMPLOYEE CONSULTATION.

Despite the obligation placed on them by Directive 14/EC of 2002, the Union's member states appear to be reluctant set upapermanent systems of information and consultation of employees. Several states have even failed to transpose this into national law.

In some of these states, it is not part of the tradition to arrange for such compulsory dialogue, says Jean Louis Cottigny (PES, France), the author of an own-initiative report on the implementation of the directive on the information and consultation of employees. Nevertheless, the member states are "required" to transpose the directive, states his...