1. legal developments trainers’ workshop Bad Orb, 21-23 March 2012

2. ● transposition 2009/38 deadline : 5 June 2011 law Portugal (9.2009) UK (3.2010), Austria (12.2010) Slovak Republic (2.2011), Bulgaria (3.2011), Denmark (4.2011), Spain (5.2011), Sweden (5.2011), Latvia (5.2011), Czech Republic (6.2011), Germany (6.2011), Lithuania (6.2011), Malta (6.2011), Slovenia (6.2011), Finland (6.2011), Estonia (7.2011), Ireland (7.2011), Cyprus (7.2011), Hungary (7.2011), Poland (8.2011), France (10.2011), Romania (10.2011), the Netherlands (11.2011), Greece (3.2012) collective agreement Belgium (12.2010), Norway (1.2011) no info Italy (joint advice TU 4.2011), Luxemburg, Lichtenstein, Iceland 2

3. legal developments ● transposition 2009/38 copy/paste little influence TU e.g. UK on training « the obligation to provide EWC members with the means required does not include the means to undertake training or time off during working hours to undertake training or remuneration for such time off » 3

4. legal developments ● transposition 2009/38 4

5. legal developments ● transposition 2009/38 http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=707&langId=en&intPageId= 211#Implementation ec.europa.eu  policies  employment and social rights  labour law  employee involvement  European Works Councils 5

6. legal developments ● transposition 2009/38 6

7. legal developments ● transposition 2009/38 7

8. legal developments ● court cases 8

9. legal developments ● court cases ● EWC training activity 9

10. legal developments ● court cases ● Renault ● British Airways ● Kühne & Nagel ● GdF ● Visteon ● Unite the Union ● and many more 10

11. legal developments observations ? suggestions ? experiences ? 11