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Daimler Nachhaltigkeitsbericht 2008 / Employees / Workforce and management relations / Dialogue with employee representative interestgroups
Dialogue with employee representative
interest groups.
Daimler cooperates closely with internal and external employee representatives in works councils and trade
unions, within and beyond national boundaries. The most important bodies here are the World Employee
Committee (WEC), which was formed on a voluntary basis in 2002, and the European Works Council, which dates
back to 1996. In Germany, ten members of the Daimler AG Supervisory Board are employee representatives, in
accordance with German co-determination legislation.
Daimler recognizes the basic right of workers to organize themselves in trade unions in accordance with the
labor laws of each country. The Group also ensures that freedom of association is guaranteed at its facilities,
even in countries that do not explicitly grant such freedom. All of these policies are laid out in our Principles of
Social Responsibility, where our expectation is also formulated that such principles be introduced at our
suppliers as well. Any business partner who violates one of these principles will be warned by the Group. Daimler
also reports regularly to the WEC on such violations.