Right to Information and Consultation of Employees: Evaluation of EU Directives in Turkey

Right to Information and Consultation of Employees: Evaluation of EU Directives in Turkey

ERDOĞAN, Ekrem
GÜMÜŞ, Yasin Kerem

In Turkish, because of the definitive role of the state, attitude of employers and powerlessness of the working class, the employers do not effectively have a say. In the EU, the employees participate their workplaces in various methods as a part of European Social Model. However, in the reconstruction process in the EU, labour and its participation methods remained local in the European scale despite the globalisation of capital especially with the increase of activities and relationships of MNCs. At this point, to reduce the differences arising from national applications and the effects of the process of reconstruction, the Commission has created a number of directives in order to provide the right to information and consultation of employees. These directives became important also for Turkey as of membership negotiations. This article aims to examine the employee participation in Turkey and indicate the possible effects of EU information and consultation directives.

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2010-06

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