Meanings
alternative co-determination
- uncountableCooperation between management and workers in making policy.
Metalworker union IG Metall said that the spin-off plan was “off the table”, adding that such a move would have weakened worker's co-determination rights.
2026 September 5, Olaf Storbeck, Kana Inagaki, “VW chief Blume pushes through job cuts in endorsement of radical slimdown plan”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 121 more example
The goal of codetermination or Mitbestimmung is the resolution of conflict through dialogue rather than force. German codetermination seeks to guarantee employment involvement in the regulation of working conditions as well as in economic planning and decision making.
2009, John T. Addison, The Economics of Codetermination: Lessons from the German Experience, Palgrave, →ISBN, page 135
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Translations
German Mitbestimmung
- MitbestimmungTranslations
Italian codeterminazione
- codeterminazioneTranslations
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