What Triggers the Establishment of a Works Council?
This paper analyses events that trigger the establishment of a works council and the actor or agent who triggers it. The paper extends previous research in two dimensions. First, we examine specific events that motivate workers to establish a works council, such as a change of owner, founding a spin-off, a firm-acquisition or a radical restructuring. These events express risk protection as workers’ primary motivation for establishing a works council. Second, we analyse the actor or agent who triggers the establishment of a works council and show that management is involved in one third of all cases and has, in a minority of cases, motivated workers to establish a works council. Managerial involvement in the process of establishment reveals a positive managerial response to worker representation.
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| Length: | 29 pages |
| Date of creation: | Mar 2009 |
| Date of revision: | Jul 2010 |
| Handle: | RePEc:iso:wpaper:0101 |
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- John T. Addison & Claus Schnabel & Joachim Wagner, 2004.
"The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils,"
British Journal of Industrial Relations,
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- Addison, John T. & Schnabel, Claus & Wagner, Joachim, 2003. "The course of research into the economic consequences of German works councils," Discussion Papers 22, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Labour and Regional Economics.
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- John T. Addison & Lutz Bellmann & André Pahnke & Paulino Teixeira, 2008. "A Note on the Determinants and Consequences of Outsourcing Using German Data," GEMF Working Papers 2008-04, GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra.
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