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Staff win right to consultation
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• Hauliers with more than 50 employees must consult them major business decisions under a new European law which givi employees the right to information and consultation.
The EU Consultation Directive requires operators to set t works councils similar to those that exist in many Continental cou tries. Works councils must be consulted on company finances, a iective redundancies, transfers of undertakings and structur changes including acquisitions and divestments.
This can affect every aspect of the business. In the Netherlanc where works councils became law in 1996, Dutch operators a consulting on the introduction of security cameras in depots and ti advent of digital tachographs.
"Holland has strict privacy laws," says Kees Maurice, operatia director at TNT Express in the Netherlands. "There is a hea debate going on in the works council about digital tachographs—tt unions are also involved."
TNT introduced depot security cameras on the understandk that only security personnel could look at the film: managers al unable to monitor staff.
The UK and Ireland have won a six-year derogation from ti directive—elsewhere in Europe companies must implement it three years.
All UK companies With more than 50 employees will be affecte on the Continent the figure is 2 From March 2005 UK compani( with more than 150 employees mu comply, with full implementation all eligible companies expected March 2009.