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works council

institutionalized employee representation in companies, businesses and corporations
Class type of: governing body, panel Q671974

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
position
Field of work
operations management[2]
Subclass of
governing body, panel[3][4]
Part of
management[5]
Applies to jurisdiction
Germany, Austria, European Union, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Spain, Denmark[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
Different from
works councillor[15]
Practiced by
works councillor[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en works council en Joint Consultative Committee en Employees’ Council ar مجلس العمال ar مجلس العمل ar مجلس عمال ar مجلس عمل cs rada zaměstnanců cs podniková rada da SU da Samarbejdsudvalg de Betriebsrat de Personalvertretung es Organizacion sindical en el lugar de trabajo es Comite de empresa es comité de empresa es Comites de empresa es Comités de empresa es Organización sindical en el lugar de trabajo fr comite d'entreprise
🔖 Identifiers · 12
GND ID
4006204-1
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Pinnwand mit BetrVG2.jpg ↗
EuroVoc ID
6051
Freebase ID
/m/031zst
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
work-councils
Lex ID
samarbejdsudvalg
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780286488
Museum-digital tag ID
16842
OpenParliamentTV term ID
works council
STW Thesaurus for Economics ID
11311-0
Topic's main category
Category:Works council
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
08328863-n

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🔗 Connections
Applies to jurisdiction 9
France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Luxembourg +1 more
Field of work 1
operations management
Instance of 1
position
Part of 1
management
Subclass of 1
governing body
Subtypes 1
European works council
Topic's main category 1
Category:Works council
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Works council
← Occupation 1
Uwe Timm
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Summary

works council is a position[1].

Related Entities

Austria Belgium Denmark France Germany Luxembourg management Netherlands operations management Spain

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OpenParliamentTV term ID → works council
    "Created claim: OpenParliamentTV term ID: Q671974, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1785524324610"
  2. 16w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Applies to jurisdiction → Germany, Austria, European Union +1
    Instance of → position
    Different from → works councillor
    Field of work → operations management
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Added qualifier: Determination method or standard: record linkage, batch #260983"
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