Sometimes you may feel a little alone when you start your term as EWC secretary or manager in charge of a EWC. IR Share can help you!
Why This Training Matters
Enabling EWC members to tackle complex issues and providing them with expertise, thanks to our network of experts across the EU and our links with European research centres.
Who It’s For
This training is ideal for:
What the Training Covers
Each coaching is tailored to the needs identified with the individual being coached. However, our methodology is as follows:
Educational presentations
- Short presentations on the fundamentals (legal framework, diversity of industrial relation systems, understanding of their EWC agreement…)
- Question-and-answer session at any time
A mix of online sessions and face-to-face meetings
- General modules conducted via Zoom or Teams
- Face-to-face modules to deepen knowledge and evaluate the practices implemented by the person being coached after EWC meetings.
Two-person coaching
- We act as experts, accompanied by someone with experience as a EWC secretary or manager in charge of a EWC
Access to networking
- We invite those we support to EWC Club meetings so that they can benefit from the experience of their peers.
- We put those we support in touch with other members of our network, if necessary.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the training, participants will:
Understand
The EU legal framework and how works a EWC
Know
How to position themselves in their role as EWC secretary or management representative to the EWC
Be familiar
With the best practices from other EWCs or SE-WCs and the ecosystem surrounding the EWC (experts, lawyers, European Trade Union Federations…)
Gain
natural authority to manage the EWC or SE-WC more effectively
Trainers profiles
Frédéric Turlan
Director, Editor of IR Notes
Frédéric is an expert in industrial relations. He has an extensive experience of writing and editing industrial relations and labour law material for a practitioner and policymaker audience.

He has written numerous reports, comparative studies and analyses for Eurofound, as national correspondent for France, and for other research centres across Europe on industrial relations and working conditions issues. He also organised numerous in-house training for European Works’ Councils on EU labour law, industrial relations and other relevant issues for EWCs and transnational social dialogue.
Franck Reinhold von Essen
Expert, IR Share
Franck has held local and national trade union positions in listed companies in France. He has also held European and international positions in companies and trade union organisations. Throughout his career, he has worked with and met various stakeholders and articipated in and led special negotiating bodies to develop European collective agreements on various topics. He has followed complex issues such as the Posting of workers Directive, problems at World Cup construction sites in Qatar, changes in corporate strategy at national and European level… He currently has no trade union or political affiliations. He is head of the ‘business office’ and a teacher of economics and management at a vocational high school in the Pyrénées Atlantiques.
Robert Textoris
Expert, IR Share
Robert Textoris has been a member of the secretariat of the European works council of the Engie group since its creation following the merger between the Suez group and Gaz de France. He became secretary in 2016. He took part in 3 revisions of the EWC agreement, which provides for a wide range of resources for the functioning of the EWC (missions, working group, annual training, etc.). In particular, it obtained an exceptional framework for meetings with candidates for the takeover of the Equans services subsidiary. This led to a specific agreement to preserve collective guarantees when the 75,000 employees were sold to the Bouygues group. Robert’s experience of European Works Councils goes back to 2003, when he started working for Electricité de France.
