European Works Councils
For large companies operating Community-wide and affected by Directive 94/45/CE, setting up a European works council is a big challenge, but crucial to their image with employees and shareholders, and to their reputation for cost awareness.
For the worker representatives, the European works council is an opportunity to engage in useful dialogue with central management.
Legal obligations aside, information and consultation ultimately serve little purpose unless they are flanked by effective multilingual communication.
With its experience of working with major-league European companies, Cii is happy to let you draw on its accumulated expertise and a broad range of interpreting services specially adapted to the needs of European works councils (plenary meetings requiring complex language combinations, bilateral contacts between distant locations, training seminars, translation of papers and presentations, how to schedule meetings to keep costs down, etc).