Collective rights to information. Lessons from the GKN case

Abstract

The essay addresses the recent decision of the Labour Court of Florence on the anti-trade union behaviour of GKN, a company belonging to a financial fund based in UK, which has been ordered to revoke the collective redundancy procedure initiated on 9 July 2021. The Author focuses on the information rights violated by the company and their normative source, and it emphasises the central role of collective agreements in guaranteeing the effectiveness of such rights.

Keywords

• information and consultation rights
• anti-trade union behaviour
• collective agreement at national level
• collective agreement at company level
• european works council