You speak about "Europe" like it's a country with a single set of regulations. It's not-- it's a continent. Even for the European Union, the rules are actually

You speak about "Europe" like it's a country with a single set of regulations. It's not-- it's a continent. Even for the European Union, the rules are actually extremely varied: http://www.worker-participation.eu/National-Industrial-Relations/Across-Europe/Workplace-Representation2 http://www.worker-participation.eu/National-Industrial-Relat... And even those countries with councils have (as the link also mentions) very varying rules on exactly what the councils do. Please don't say "Europe" when you mean "some European country".