Federation of European Employers
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The Federation of European Employers (FedEE) began as an informal network of progressive multinational companies in 1989. Its original member companies had come together through participation in a European Commission funded project.
Since its formation, FedEE has grown to become the leading organisation for multinational employers operating in Europe. Its principal aims are to assist major companies to achieve legal compliance, operate more effectively at an international level, take full advantage of EU expansion into central and Eastern Europe, develop practical/equitable pay structures, evaluate new employment methods and trends, monitor employee participation and trade union activities at a European level and embrace workforce diversity.
Founder and current Secretary-General of FedEE is Robin E.J Chater (1949 - ). Formerly Director of the Personnel Policy Research Unit, Head of Practice at Cambridge Consultants Ltd, Client Consultant with HAY Associates Management Consultants and Senior Research Officer with Incomes Data Services (IDS). Between 1982 and 1992 he was an Advisor to DG V of the European Commission.
Robin was Co-editor of Incomes Policy (Clarendon Press, 1981) and author (under his pen name Simon Paine) of Endangered Spaces: Privacy Law & The Home (2000). Whilst staff writer for Incomes Data Report in 1977 he was the first person to use winter of discontent in an industrial relations context. He also drafted a code of conduct on privacy at work for the UK Information Commissioner's Office (1999).
