Employee representation is at two levels

Organised employee representation is at two levels. The first is the “workers’
council”, elected for each “shop” by its employees.

Each business regularly employing five or more persons must allow its employees to form a workers’
council from among their number. The size of the council depends on the
number of employees. For example, the workers’ council of a small business
employing between 5 and 20 individuals will consist of a single member. This
rises to three members for between 21 and 50 employees. The limit of the
table is reached with 35 members where there are between 7,001 and 9,000
employees.

Thereafter, the worker’s council grows by two with each newly
begun step of 3,000 employees. There are also provisions for individual and
combined “central” workers’ councils for diversified concerns.