Control Council Law No 22, Works Councils (10 April 1946) was a German labour law drafted by the Allied Control Council to enable the formation of work councils in rebuilding the economy and society after World War II. Work councils, which employees of a firm organised and elected democratically to determine workplace issues, had existed in Germany in various forms since 1889. They had been abolished by Adolf Hitler's Nazi party.[1] The new Control Council Law No 22 provided a template for democratic German trade unions to re-organise through collective agreements with employers.