Congress of Deputies to debate Sumar’s proposal for trade unions to join boards of directors

ERTESSpanish Ministry of Labour, Yolanda Díaz, in a meeting with trade unions’ respresentatives at the left and employers’ representatives at the right

The Congress Labour Committee will debate this Tuesday the proposal of Sumar, the party led by the vice-president and Minister of Labour, Yolanda Díaz, to include workers, their representatives and trade union organisations on the boards of directors of companies and business groups, with the aim of promoting a “more democratic functioning of companies”.

Yolanda Díaz, a Communist Party activist, says she wants to take an example from the co-determination law in Germany, where the board of directors is overseen by a supervisory board in which half of the seats are held by workers’ representatives.

In order to support his motion he claims to rely on two European Directives on the involvement of workers in the European Company (which allows any European company to use the Rhineland model) and the European Cooperative Society, which were transposed in 2006.


El Congreso debate la propuesta de Sumar para que los sindicatos entren en los consejos de administración

La Comisión de Trabajo del Congreso debatirá este martes la propuesta de Sumar, el partido que lidera la vicepresidenta y ministra de Trabajo, Yolanda Díaz, para incluir a trabajadores, sus representantes y las organizaciones sindicales en los consejos de administración de empresas y grupos empresariales, con el objetivo de impulsar un funcionamiento “más democrático de las empresas”.

Yolanda Díaz, militante del Partido Comunista, dice querer tomar ejemplo de la ley de cogestión de Alemania, donde el consejo de administración es vigilado por un Consejo de Supervisión en el que la mitad de los puestos son ocupados por representantes de los trabajadores.

Para apoyar su Proposición No de Ley asegura apoyarse en dos Directivas Europeas sobre la implicación de los trabajadores en la Sociedad Anónima Europea (que permite utilizar el modelo renano a cualquier sociedad europea) y en la Sociedad Cooperativa Europea, que se transpusieron en 2006.

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