TY - JOUR AB - The new Amsterdam Treaty — which incorporates the Social Chapter — was signed in October. The UK will now be affected by a number of European directives from which it had previously opted out. Employee information and consultation is one such directive. This article describes the best practice revealed by Towers Perrin research in implementing this directive. The results point towards the logic of companies taking a strategic look at their communications in order to develop a cohesive policy that takes into account the requirements of this and other forthcoming European social legislation that has communication as its central theme. VL - 2 IS - 2 SN - 1363-254X DO - 10.1108/eb023459 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023459 AU - Cuthbert Don PY - 1997 Y1 - 1997/01/01 TI - European Works Councils and information and consultation procedures: Employee communications — strategy and approach T2 - Journal of Communication Management PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 181 EP - 185 Y2 - 2024/04/24 ER -