ABSTRACT
The proposed Directive would facilitate the information and consultation of workers in larger enterprises within the E.C., notably multinational companies. The Directive stipulates that the management of the controlling company is obliged, at least once every six months, to give to those daughter companies functioning within the E.C. certain information about the activities of the whole enterprises. The more shift to the political right, which has seen governments of the right installed in a majority of the E.C.'s Member States, has also had a direct effect on the evolution of the negotiations on the Vredeling Directive. The binding nature of any Community directive and the multinational scope of the Vredeling/Richard Directive must be maintained. If the E.E.C. truly wishes to adopt a binding Directive for the information and consultation of employees and not an optional code of conduct, then it must drop para.
