EWC Annual Meeting Communique

Following the Meeting with Management in March, you may consider our joint communique archived here (Oracle Intranet).

EWC Calling for "Employee Pain Points Presentations"

The European Works Council Representatives wishes to take  next annual meeting as an opportunity to collect organisational pain points and present them to EMEA Top Management.

Workflow processes, Self Service, Internal Competition - Any inappropriate process is welcome to try to figure out how we may improve Oracle Employee life.

Please contact your local employee representative, or one of the EWC steering commitee member (Peter R, Rashmi, Peter H, Mariarosa or myself).

HP's EWC taking the company to court

Is HP building its future in the HP Way ?

The huge HP reduction in force plan is not at all convincing employees.

A lawsuit has been filled by the European Works Council, willing to upgrade its rules of procedure to the EU 2009 level.

Read More... (ChannelRegister)

Power Union Website (Do not care the McAffee Site Advisor Warning)

Oracle EWC Training In Rome - An opportunity to draw the future of EMEA Employee relationship

The meeting held for 3 days in Roma is an opportunity for 23 EU Works Council reps to share their point of views and best practices in order to move forward, as a group,  for the coming years.

I do feel a lot of progress has been made in building trust with EMEA management and enhancing the way we share our concerns. We will strive to enhance the value of this body for both parties, and find better ways of informing all employees EMEA Wide.

Disclaimer - This statement represents the CFDT FR Delegate opinion. These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of the EWC Body.

Transparency in Corporate Reporting

The used-to-be-called "Enabling the information age" Company, Oracle, is receiving a very average rating from Transparency International 2012 Survey, far behind SAP, and HP.

Together with Microsoft, Walt Disney, Verison, Cisco,Oracle gets its lower rating on the "Organisational Transparency".  How many companies have we got in the heaven Islands ?

The full report can be accessed here.

Enabling the Information Age....

Remember this internal marketing program ?

Better be aware of pidgin archives...

Even more if you're one of the most senior executive within the company.

As indicated in Business Insider, The court case between HP and Oracle regarding the Itanium destiny is turning into a bad soap opera as very confidential Instant Messages Archives are beeing uncovered and brought under the sunlight.

Read more Business Insider,  Yahoo Finance,

EWC Annual Meeting in Geneva

The 2012 Oracle European Works Council will be held in Geneva with 23 representants from the different subsidiaries.

This meeting ought to outline the state of the company and its employment trends within EMEA.

Concerns are raised in certain areas, where no presentations were provided beforehand. Employee representatives will make their best effort to report back the main points to their respective employees.