comité économique et social

15:41 Dec 22, 2019 

France has always had a public institution, called CES (Le Conseil économique et social).

What we are talking about is a 'Comité économique et social" for the personnel of business units. This new business institution is more comprehensive because it ' succède aux anciennes instances représentatives suivantes : délégués du personnel, comité hygiène sécurité et conditions de travail (CHSCT) et comité d’entreprise, progressivement à compter du 1er janvier 2018. Le CSE devient ainsi l'unique institution représentative du personnel dans l'entreprise.'

Each business unit with 11 employees/workers is compelled to have a CES, whereas only businesses with 50 employees/workers were compelled to have a 'Comite d'entreprise' in the past. That's why I said that the CES was relevant to a larger number of businesses.

06:59 Dec 22, 2019 

Hello
Your use of "comprehensive" plus "for a larger number of companies" suggest that the CSE covers many companies. I'm not sure if this is what you meant but each company has its own CSE as long as it has 11+ employees (otherwise, it's facultative)
Also, it is most certainly not a "new institution created by Macron" which makes it sound like there is only one CSE in France. There are hundreds of thousands of CSE's in France.
Someone (Daryo?) did speak somewhere in this question about Le Conseil économique, social et environnemental (CESE) but that goes back under different names in French history well before Macron's time.
The CESE also has an official name in English as it has an English website. It's "The Economic, Social and Environmental Council (ESEC)"
Regards
SafeTex

04:09 Dec 22, 2019 

The new institution created by the Macron Administration is a comprehensive Works Council for a larger number of companies

00:28 Dec 22, 2019 

Hello
I think there are two ways to go here and you have both already. Either translate it into something remotely recognisable in English despite inherent/national differences (Works Committee) or translate the French word for word to keep the essential idea in French and to stay faithful to the source text (Social and Economic Committee)
The second suggestion was what translators went for last time (see my reference) while this time it is behind in agrees/disagrees.
That said, I'd go with the second solution this time but it's "au piff".

13:09 Dec 18, 2019 

Wouldn't the easiest be to simply keep translating the new body as a "works council" since that is essentially what it is?

Depending on the situation and context, you could explain in varying detail how the new works council differs from the old works council (adding the CE/CSE FR initialisms in brackets or mentioning how the new council incorporates all the other bodies like the health & safety committee).

03:21 Dec 18, 2019 

Hello Conor
To answer your question about "blanding" it, it's true that "social and economic committee" does not reflect that this is staff representatives committee.
I suppose it could also depend on what comes after in your text. Does it go on to explain what this committee is or not,
As for stuff not coming up, I find the Proz site pretty hard to search on and often use Google (term + Proz) to get easier and quicker results than using the Proz search functions themselves.
But I remembered this question for some obscure reason which is why I searched for it in the first place.