Activities of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2021/2005(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European framework for employees' participation rights and the revision of the European Works Council Directive (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on democracy at work: a European framework for employees’ participation rights and the revision of the European Works Council Directive
Amendments (20)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas work is a crucial and structuring activity in society, and whereas work should undeniably be a way of and a reason for meeting human material needs;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. whereas the employment relationship is an unequal relationship in that the stronger party, the employer, holds almost all the power from the start, while the other party, the worker, is weaker and merely sells their labour; whereas democracy at work cannot be achieved without addressing this issue;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A b (new)
Recital -A b (new)
Ab. whereas democracy at work goes beyond the formal participation of trade union organisations in so-called social concertation meetings or the simple consultation of these organisations; whereas the promotion of democracy at work calls for the safeguarding and upholding of various rights and principles, including the right to collective organisation, collective action and collective recruitment; trade union rights; the right to strike, the principle of prohibiting unfair dismissal; the principle of equal pay for equal work; and the principle of adapting work to human needs and reconciling family and personal life with work by means of arrangements including appropriate working hours; the reduction of working time in order to enable workers to participate in political, trade union and social life;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A c (new)
Recital -A c (new)
-Ac. whereas democracy at work can likewise not be achieved if precarious and unregulated employment relationships, instability, low wages, lack of safety at work and harassment in the workplace persist;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, although democracy in general and democracy at work in particular are core values of the European Union and provide a very solid foundation on which to strengincorporated in the Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of then Europe’s resilience and social contract; whereas these core values are also incorporatan Union, the EU institutions have introduced mechanisms which have done much to weaken them; whereas the Green Paper on modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century, the country-specific recommendations addressed into the Community ChMember States as parter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European UnionEuropean Semester and the so-called financial assistance programmes have been instrumental in the attack on workers’ rights and, consequently, on the erosion of democracy at the workplace;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the voice and action of workers is a key element of the European Social Model, whose shared legacy ofan advanced democracy based on four inseparable strands – political, economic, social and cultural – including social dialogue, workers’ participation, collective bargaining, employee representation on boards, health and safety representation, and tripartism are the building blocks of a diverse and socially sustainable future;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas workers’ participation, collective bargaining coverage and unioncollective bargaining and collective recruitment and the essential role of trade unions in improving the living and working conditions of workers have been severely undermined by the EU institutions and EU legislation are declining across; whereas this is part of a deliberate campaign to weaken democracy at work throughout the EU;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the rich and interlocking network of workers’ participation at workplaces across the entire Unionin all Member States, from workers and trade union representatives elected by and from the workforce at the local level, to cross-site works councils in more complex companies, to dedicated health and safety representation, and employee representation on companies’ supervisory or administrative boards; deplores, however, the instrumentalisation by employers of certain worker representative bodies, which are used to conclude letterbox agreements that serve only the interests of employers;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is convinced that the workers’ voice must be a key component of EU initiatives to ensure sustainable and democratic corporate governance and, guaranteeing due diligence on human rights, especially in the work environment;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Regrets the fact that the 2019 Company Law Package failed to adequately define a high EU standard for information, consultation and workers’ board-level participation and representation in cases where companies restructure across borders;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to make the necessary improvements to the frameworks regulating SEs and European Cooperative Societies and to the Company Law Package, and to amend Council Directive 2001/86/EC to introduce minimum EU rules governing employee participation and representation on supervisory boards;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to deliver on its commitment to put forward without further delay a directive on binding human rights due diligence and responsible business conduct, including workers’ rights such as the right to organise and collectively bargain, trade unions, the right to strike, health and safety, social protection and working conditions, including full compliance with the principle of prohibiting unfair dismissal; the principle of equal pay for equal work; and the principle of adapting work to human needs and reconciling family and personal life with work; stresses that this directive should establish mandatory due diligence covering companies’ activities and their business relationships, including supply and subcontracting chains, and should ensure the full involvement of trade unions and workers’ representatives throughout the whole due diligence process;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is convinced that introducing and monitoring new digital technologies in the workplace successfully and in a trustworthy manner will require timely and meaningful information for and consultation with trade unions and workers’ representatives, as well as the establishment of consultation and bargaining processes which make for the effective participation of workers and their representatives in decision-making processes that concern them, to ensure full respect for their health, safety, data protection, equal treatment and well‑being at work and prevent undue exploitation and surveillance of workers, in particular via management by algorithms; underlines the fact that trade unions and workers’ representatives should have the necessary access and means to assess and evaluate digital technology;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the need to strengthen, enforce and consolidate all the relevant EU laws to ensure that information for and consultation of employees is an integral part of company decision-making at all levels within companies;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the importance of ensuring timely and meaningful information and consultation across the EU, as appropriate, before any management decisions are made which have an impact on jobs and working conditions and about policies or measures with cross‑border implications; emphasises that workers’ representatives must have access to the requisite expertise and documentation to assess the implications of these cross- border policies and processes for their workforceing relationship;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. States that much remains to be done to ensure gender equality and equal opportunities in all aspects of worker participation across the EU;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Points out that the current European legal framework on worker information, consultation and participation (such as the European Works Council Directive, the European Company Directive and the Directive on cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions) has loopholes and shortcomings that need to be addressed urgently in order to enforce workers’ rights, to combat shell companies and the ‘shopping’ regime, to ensure that effective and dissuasive penalties are imposed for violations and to guarantee access to justice;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recalls that the European Works Council Directive is part of the EU acquis on employees’ right to participation, information for and consultation of employees; expresses concern over shortcomings in the directive’s design, notably the enforcement and effectiveness of information and consultation rights, and deplores the opportunity missed in 2008 to develop further and significantly improve this directive;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls for a thorough and complete revision of the Directive on the establishment of a European Works Council with a view to strengthening employee representatives’ right to information and consultation, including through the introduction of the principle of the right of veto for employees’ representatives, particularly during restructuring and attempts to relocate companies, and cross-border companies in particular, and where workers’ rights are not respected;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to guarantee the strengthening of information and consultation rights to ensure that the European Works Council can deliver its opinion before consultation is completed at the respective level and before the governing bodies come to a decision; calls on the Commission, moreover, to ensure access to justice, to put an end to exemptions for old, so-called ‘voluntary’ pre-directive agreements after more than 20 years, to introduce sanctions, to consolidate the concept of the ‘transnational character of a matter’ and incorporate it into the European Works Council Directive, to prevent the abuse of confidentiality rules, and to ensure the efficient coordination of information, consultation and participation at local, national and EU levels;