As an employee, you have a say in how things are arranged or decided within the organisation. The Works Council Act (WOR) lays down how this happens, for example through a PVT, (joint) Works Council, OC, COR or GOR. But what do all these abbreviations actually mean? Here is a brief explanation.
(almost every link in this text leads to the specific articles of the Dutch WOR on our website, for the translated articles please see the English WOR translated by the SER)
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employee participation
The Dutch Works Councils Act (or WOR in Dutch) is a law that describes how organisations are obliged to organise employee participation in their organisation. These are rules with which every organisation in the Netherlands must comply. The number of employees and the organisation's design determine how and in which form the employee participation is organised by law.
when should there be employee participation?
In organisations of 10 employees or more, employee participation takes the form of an employee representative body (In Dutch 'PVT' which is an abbreviation of 'Personeelsvertegenwoordiging'). In organisations with 50 employees or more, employee participation takes place in the form of a Works Council (in Dutch 'OR' which is an abbreviation of 'ondernemingsraad').
The responsibility for setting up a PVT or Works Council lies with the management board (or, as it is called in the WOR, the Bestuurder (Director)). However, this requires the employees to have at least some interest to take part in a PVT or Works Council. The board must do its best, as stated in the WOR, to encourage employees to participate in the Works Council.
The board must take the initiative to set up a Works Council if a group of employees specifically requests it. In practice, you often notice that the board immediately asks such a group to organise the (first) Works Council elections (Dutch).
Therefore, we present this overview of the abbreviations for the forms of participation in organisations; each term is complete with the conditions/composition and organisation/rights and powers.
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