{"id":74192,"date":"2025-01-15T17:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/?p=74192"},"modified":"2025-01-15T17:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:05:52","slug":"best-resource-management-practices-for-compliance-with-european-works-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/blog\/best-resource-management-practices-for-compliance-with-european-works-councils","title":{"rendered":"Best Resource Management Practices for Compliance with European Works Councils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resource management\u2019s prevalence worldwide has long been established. There are trade organizations, international conferences, and professional certifications across the globe. How companies manage their resources is also subject to local laws and regulations. In Europe, companies must abide by strict rules surrounding worker protections, data protection, and transparency. The European Commission ensures that companies with employees in two or more European countries take steps to involve employees in decision-making and keep them apprised of important company developments. When companies have a certain number of employees operating in the European Union or European Economic Areas, employees can establish a works council. <a href=\"https:\/\/employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu\/policies-and-activities\/rights-work\/labour-law\/employee-involvement\/european-works-councils_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Works Councils<\/a>, or EWCs, and the laws surrounding them are established by the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Works councils reside within the company and are comprised of employees exclusively from that employer. The key purpose of an EWC is to create a channel where employees can consult with their company\u2019s leaders on significant decisions that can affect their employment or working conditions. While the right to form an EWC exists in the laws of the European Union, each member state is responsible for the laws governing EWC creation and ensuing details of its operation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 30px;\"><a class=\"btn-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Tempus-Resource-Guide-European-Works-Councils.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download this Guide as a PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resource management\u2019s prevalence worldwide has long been established. There are trade organizations, international conferences, and professional certifications across the globe. How companies manage their resources is also subject to local laws and regulations. In Europe, companies must abide by strict rules surrounding worker protections, data protection, and transparency. The European Commission ensures that companies with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"use-case":[],"content-type":[59],"class_list":["post-74192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","content-type-guide"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74192"},{"taxonomy":"use-case","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/use-case?post=74192"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosymmetry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=74192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}