19 Amendments of Enrico GASBARRA related to 2015/2222(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas forms of worker participation at company level exist in 18 Member States of the European Union and in Norway, but they differ enormously owing to their respective economic and social historical development;15 whereas, therefore, it is important to respect the subsidiarity principle, in an appropriate manner, also in the field of industrial relations; __________________ 15 http://de.worker- participation.eu/National-Industrial- Relations/Across-Europe/Board-level- Representation2/MAP-Board-level- representation-in-the-European-Economic- Area2;Conchon Aline (2015) Workers’ voice in corporate governance: A European perspective, https://www.etui.org/Publications2/Reports /Workers-voice-in-corporate-governance.- A-European-perspective
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the scope and intensity of worker participation vary greatly, but it has proved effective, and whereas the countries concerned are essentially economically successful ones16; __________________ 16http://www.worker- participation.eu/About-WP/European- Participation-Index-EPIhas boosted growth;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas future corporate management will only be successful with a long-term, sustainable and participatory approach which includes all stakeholders18; __________________ 18 http://de.worker-participation.eu/Ueber- WP.eu/Publications/The-Sustainable- Company-a-new-approach-to-corporate- governance
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas there have been cases in which the existing form of the European Company (SE) is also used to avoid national forms of worker participation in companies;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on single-member private limited liability companies (SUP)19 canmight be used to circumvent existing national forms of worker representation on supervisory boards, and the Committee on Employment therefore rejected this proposal in its opinion of 29 June 2015;20 __________________ 19 20COM(2014) 212. COM(2014) 212. 20 PE549.466v02-00. PE549.466v02-00.
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas company law legislative acts at European level and / or such acts applied cross-border are often drawn up without taking into accountmust also take into account the Community acquis in the field of labour law;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas giving priority to thethe promotion of the internal market and of the principles of competition and fundamental economic freedoms in the European Union oftenmust not leads to the erosion of the national worker representation, not only at supervisory board level;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to ensure that provision is made for consulting employee representationves at supervisory board level in drafting all new EU legislative acts or revising existing ones in the context of European company law;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Council, the Member States and the Commission to respect and protect existing national forms of worker representation at supervisory board level in the EU, in accordance with the subsidiarity principle, and to counter any attempt to use existing EU law to circumvent or abuse such arrangements by making appropriate changes in the relevant European Treaties or legislative acts;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Encourages the Commission, the European Parliament and the Council, in the area of company law, to seek at an early stage enhanced cooperation with the bodes responsible for employment because their opinions are frequently ignored until it is too late or not sufficiently taken into account;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to introduce in the Directive on the European Company (SE) minimum EU rules governing employee representation on supervisory boards, rather than referring to national law or revising the Directive so that the involvement of workers in supervisory boards is not solely determined by conditions when a company is established, but account is also taken of subsequent developments, of the necessary safeguard of equal gender representation and, in particular, changes in the number of employees;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission in all legislative acts on European company law to provide that the place of a company’s registered offices must be identical with its actual place of business so as to prevent the circumvention of the requirement regarding employee representation on supervisory boards, such as would be possible underensure that measures are not adopted within the framework of the proposal for single- member private limited liability companies (SUP) that do not include employee representation on supervisory boards, and, instead of this proposal, to submit a proposal for a directive on the cross-border transfer of the registered office, as decided by the European Parliament22; __________________ 22 Resolution of 10 March 2009 with recommendations to the Commission on the cross-border transfer of the registered office of a company.
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to develop standards for rules governing employee representation on supervisory boards that can be applied as a universal model in the form of a directive to all European corporate law directives which takes into account, but does not replace, existing rules on information and consultationand would constitute minimum standards to be applied in all those countries in which forms of employee participation and representation are provided for under national corporate law;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recommends that this Directive should be applicable to all forms of company with a supervisory board at European level, i.e. account should be taken of public and private companies, partnerships and limited companies and also workers employed in the affiliated parent and subsidiary companies; hopes that, with due regard for differences between national legislations, recognition of common minimum forms of employee participation and consultation can also be introduced by countries which do not yet provide for these;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Reaffirms the right of workers to elect their own representatives, in accordance with the national representation systems;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Demands that steps be taken, in appointing the supervisory board, to ensure that the sexes are represented according to the gender ratio in the company’s workforcee equal representation of both sexes; calls on the Council in this connection to expedite the Parliament- backed proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving the gender balance among non- executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures24; __________________ 24 COM(2012)0614. COM(2012)0614.
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Demands that this Directive ensure that the representatives of the workforce may also be fromworkers be able to elect their own representatives, internally, from among the workforce, or from among the representatives of affiliated companies – and, in the case of transnational companies, may also originate from another Member State – and that trade union representatives may also be put forward and elected as externalexternal and trade union representatives;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recommends, with respect to the number of workeremployee representatives sitting on theon supervisory boards of companies, including direct or indirect subsidiaries and affiliates with more than 50 employees25, that half the number of seats on the supervisory board should be reserved for workers or their representatives; __________________ 25In Sweden from 50 workers.
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls on the Commission to propose instruments and incentives to promote pilot systems, special agreements between the social partners and advanced best practices in the field of information, participation and consultation of workers so that even those countries where there is currently no employee participation can test their effectiveness;