ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights some salient points and certain trends, taking a bird's eye view in order to lay the groundwork for a more profound discussion, which will hopefully encourage further research. It focuses on the provision of information, in the framework of collective bargaining as well as in works councils and supervisory boards and on the scope and format of the disclosure of information. The obligation of employers to provide information finds its origin in sometimes overlapping, ever opposed values and aims, as diversified as the promotion of collective bargaining, the promotion of collaboration between employers and employees or of workers' control. "Provisions relating to the provision of information to the negotiating parties, though quite common and detailed in industrialised countries, are more exceptional and usually less specified in developing countries". The employer, responsible for the involved entity, has obviously the duty to provide the required information.
