Employees’ rights other than rights of participation should remain subject to the national provisions referred to in Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998 on collective redundancies , Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 on the safeguarding of employees’ rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or businesses , Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community and Council Directive 94/45/EC of 22 September 1994 on the establishment of a European Works ...[+++] Council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees

Employees’ rights other than rights of participation should remain subject to the national provisions referred to in Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998 on collective redundancies , Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 on the safeguarding of employees’ rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or businesses , Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community and Council Directive 94/45/EC of 22 September 1994 on the establishment of a European Works ...[+++] Council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees .

Nonetheless, a number of circumstances - low levels of trade union membership, the difficulty of inspecting geographically remote work locations, and the presence of non-Community workers on board vessels from Member States and of Community workers on board vessels from third countries or belonging to joint ventures - make it difficult to ensure that the sea fishery's workers' labour rights are respected in practice.

The disclosure of information to and the consultation of representatives of the employees of the offeror and the offeree company should be governed by the relevant national provisions, in particular those adopted pursuant to Council Directive 94/45/EC of 22 September 1994 on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees , Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies , Council Directive 2001/86/EC of 8 October ...[+++] 2001 supplementing the statute for a European Company with regard to the involvement of employees and Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community — Joint declaration of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on employee representation .

- having regard to the proposals for a European Parliament and Council regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 on freedom of movement for workers within the Community , a European Parliament and Council directive amending Directive 68/360/EEC on the abolition of restrictions on movement and residence within the Community for workers of Member States and their families , a European Parliament and Council decision establishing an Advisory Committee on freedom of movement and social security for Community workers and amending Council Regulations (EEC) No 1612/68 and (EEC) No 1408/71 , and a Council regulation amending Regulation (EE ...[+++]C) 1408/71 as regards its extension to nationals of third-countries ;

Recent statistics show for example that 15% of employees in the European Union live below the poverty line.