Information and consultation software
Information and consultation is a legal process with dates, evidence and consequences. Most employers still run it on email, shared drives and a spreadsheet that only one person understands.
The category most HR software ignores
Generic HR platforms manage individuals: hiring them, paying them, reviewing them. Information and consultation is collective. It concerns bodies rather than employees, it runs to statutory clocks, and the record you keep is the thing that protects the decision later.
Directive 2002/14/EC set the general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Union, and each member state has built its own machinery on top. The result is a landscape where the same corporate decision triggers different obligations, different bodies and different timetables in every country it touches.
That is a data problem and a process problem at once, and neither a case management tool nor a project tracker was designed for it.
What Graylark does
Holds the structures, not just the cases. ER Landscape records employee representative bodies, trade unions, associations, legal entities and sites, with the collective agreements that bind them, version tracked and with expiry alerts. FreshScore shows how current each part of the picture is.
Runs the consultation. Change Proposals models a change across every impacted country, with country-specific obligations, owners, deadlines and threaded country assessments.
Handles the European tier. EWC Management covers meetings, membership, agenda, opinions and management responses, SNB support, budget tracking and dispute resolution, with a workflow you configure around your own EWC agreement rather than a fixed template.
Keeps the evidence. Documents carry confidentiality classification, from Public through Employees and Works Council to Confidential, and every privileged action is written to an audit log as it happens.
Speaks your languages. The platform ships in 14 or more languages, including English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch.
Who this is for
Employee relations, labour relations and industrial relations functions in multinationals with European operations, together with the employment counsel and works council coordinators who work alongside them.
See it with your own structures
Book a demo and we will show it against a landscape that looks like yours.
Related: Works council management, European Works Council software, Labour relations management software.