worker director

They are always limited to a workers director, who votes only on matters concerning employees.

But I don't think you should just appoint somebody and say he's a worker director.

Later that year he also defeated the requirement for British companies to have 'worker directors'.

Drittelbeteiligungsgesetz 2004, codified again, one third worker directors in companies with over 500 staff.

Industrial democracy, worker directors and works councils.

In 1997, John Prescott appointed a worker director overseeing some aspects of the now privatised industry.

Betriebsrätegesetz 1920, German law introducing the first widespread private sector requirement for worker directors, as of right.

A worker director is a member of a company's board of directors that is elected by the workforce of an organisation.

South Metropolitan Gas Act 1896, until abolition by the Gas Act 1948, enabling worker directors, combined with a share ownership plan.

On the management board, one member must be a Staff-director (Arbeitsdirecktor) who cannot be appointed against the votes of the worker directors on the supervisory board.

More importantly, having had experience of worker directors on European boards on which I have sat, I can tell you that these positions are jealously held and guarded.

Giving employees a greater say in how their companies operate could be an important step towards such a goal, but Laing is opposed to the appointment of worker directors, as is the practice in Scandinavia.

'KME differed little from conventional organisations and fell well short of co-operative ideals'; and again, 'the worker directors apparently adopted an autocratic style and barely communicated with their fellow members.'

The Board consists of 12 members - six nominated by the Minister, four nominated by the Minister on the advice of the Houses of the Oireachtas Joint Committee with responsibility for broadcasting, one worker director and the Director-General.