European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
Eurofound's ERM database on restructuring-related legal regulations provides information on regulations in the Member States of the European Union and Norway which are explicitly or implicitly linked to anticipating and managing change.
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Before the effective date of transfer of rights and obligations (arising from labour relations) from the hitherto employer (transferor) to another employer (transferee), both the transferor and the transferee shall be obliged to inform and negotiate thereof, sufficiently in advance (however, no later than 30 days before the transfer of the said rights and obligations to the transferee) the trade union organisation and the works council and consult them, with a view to reaching agreement, on:
Where neither a trade union organisation nor a works council operates at the enterprise of the employer, the transferor and the transferee shall inform and negotiate the employees who will be directly affected by the transfer.
These provisions apply, in addition to transfers of entire companies, also to transfers of selected activities or tasks to another employer. The business transfer must be negotiated with employees of companies of all sizes and types.
Eurofound (2015), Czechia: Staff information and consultation on business transfers, Restructuring legislation database, Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/legislationdb/staff-information-and-consultation-on-business-transfers/czechia
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