IR Share is not afraid of any training subject, apart from financial analysis, for which we have excellent partners to help European Works Councils!
Why This Training Matters
Enabling EWC members to tackle complex issues and providing them with expertise, thanks to our network of experts across the EU and our links with European research centres.
Who It’s For
This training is ideal for:
What the Training Covers
Each training course is tailored to the specific topics requested by the EWC, but here are some examples:
Generative AI and other AI systems:
- Brainstorming Generative AI: what do we do now?
- Workshop on how to use different AI tools
- How can AI be used to improve the functioning of the European Works Council?
Decarbonisation of the economy
- General discussion – What changes can be identified today in the various professions within the Group?
- Round table with EWC secretaries: what are the positions and roles of EWCs with regard to the ecological transformation of transnational companies?
- Role play: The European Works Council is informed of events related to energy transition and climate change. It must prepare to meet with management.
CSR and Due diligence
- Presentation of the legal framework
- Round table with EWC secretaries about EWC initiatives in terms of CSR reporting
- The company and its social and environmental responsibilities
- The role of the European Works Council in CSR
- Understanding the group’s non-financial performance statement
- Workshop: why get involved in CSR – ecological transition
Health and Safety
- Presentation: the European legal framework and the main principles of the 1989 directive
- Workshop: identifying priority health and safety issues to be addressed by the European Works Council
- Health and safety: what tools are available to implement the priorities identified
Learning Objectives
By the end of the training, participants will:
Understand
How their EWC can deal with the selected issues
Know
The legal framework of the selected topic
Be familiar
With the practices from other EWCs or SE-WCs
Gain
Confidence to challenge management on their selected topic
Trainers profiles
Frédéric Turlan
Director, Editor of IR Notes
Frédéric is an expert in industrial relations. He has an extensive experience of writing and editing industrial relations and labour law material for a practitioner and policymaker audience.
He has written numerous reports, comparative studies and analyses for Eurofound, as national correspondent for France, and for other research centres across Europe on industrial relations and working conditions issues. He also organised numerous in-house training for European Works’ Councils on EU labour law, industrial relations and other relevant issues for EWCs and transnational social dialogue.
Christophe Teissier
Project manager, Ultra Laborans
Christophe trained as a lawyer and worked for the French Ministry of Research. In 2007, he joined Astrées (which became Ultra Laborans in 2023) to work on developments in social dialogue. Since then, he has been working on reinventing deliberative processes in companies, with a view to better tackling today’s major societal challenges. He heads up Ultra Laborans’ social dialogue expertise and European projects. In this capacity, he has developed recognised expertise at European level on issues relating to social dialogue and its players. He has been involved on numerous occasions in training members of European Works Councils in various sectors, notably alongside IR SHARE. Recently, he trained the EWCs of Veolia (2023), Suez (2023), BNP Paribas (2022), Generali (2021) and SCOR (2021).
Christian Welz
Senior researcher, IR Share
Christian Welz has had an illustrious career in the fields of industrial relations (IR), EU labour law, and employment policy at Eurofound, a tripartite EU agency based in Dublin. He led several EU IR governance projects, including the EU IR dictionary and index, varieties of IR, EU Social Dialogue, capacity building, and working life country profiles. Christian’s academic journey in law took him through the Universities of Bonn, Freiburg, Aix-en-Provence, and Strasbourg, culminating in a PhD from the University of Nijmegen.
In May 2017, he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Kehl (DE), and in the first quarter of 2019, he was a visiting professor at Massey University in Auckland, NZ.
Since retiring, Christian has continued to contribute to the field as a visiting fellow at Eurofound and a member of its social dialogue network. He is also actively involved in several organizations, including the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, the Advisory Committee of the Global Employment Institute of the International Bar Association, the Board of the European Labour Law Journal, and the Editorial Advisory Board of the European Journal of Industrial Relations.
