10 Amendments of Anne SANDER related to 2021/2005(INI)
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas workers’ participation, collective bargaining coverage and unionisation are declining across the EUessential for the enforcement of workers’ rights and the proper functioning of companies;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas sustainable corporate governance can only be achieved with employee involvement; whereas the economic model based on the short-term ‘shareholder value’ principle has failed toa virtuous economic development model must encourage long-term investment and proper respect for human rights and, in particular, for the participation rights of trade unions and workers during past crises20; __________________ Rapp, M. S., Wolff, M., Udoieva, I., Hennig, J. C., ‘Mitbestimmung im Aufsichtsrat und ihre Wirkung auf die Unternehmensführung’, Hans-Böckler- Stiftung, No 424, June 2019; Ernst and Young, Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance, July 2020.
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the active inclusion of workers in companies’ decision-making processes will be essential to ensure the fast, substantial and sustainable policy and strategy changes required by the twin digital and green transitions, which will herald tremendoussignificant changes in the world of work;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that through loopholes, the EU Statute for a European Company (Societas Europeae – SE) is inadvertently enabling companies to circumvent national regulations, particularly on board-level employee representation; regrets the fact that the 2019 Company Law Package24 is serving to perpetuate these shortcomings rather than resolve them; notestakes the view that cross- border mergers are also used to avoid representation rights; stresses that companies use complex corporate structures and supply or subcontracting chains to circumvent social standardsstrengthen the single market by generating greater synergies between European companies, but can sometimes give rise to unfair practices that need to be addressed; __________________ 24Directive (EU) 2019/2121 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 as regards cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions (OJ L 321 12.12.2019, p. 1).
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates that several EU legal acts concerning workers’ board-level representation rights do not establish minimum requirementshould set out clear recommendations for board-level representation in the various kinds of European company or for companies that use EU company law instruments to enable cross-border company mobility and legal reorganisation such as cross-border mergers, conversions and divisions;
Amendment 127 #
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 ruleEU recommendations governing employee representation on supervisory boards;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish the necessary conditions and requirements to ensure that at least 80 % of corporations in the EU are covered by sustainable corporate governance agreements by 203025; calls, to this end, for the establishment of strategies agreed with workers to positively influence environmental, social and economic development through governance practices and market presence, to strengthen the role of directors in pursuing the long-term interests of their company, to improve directors’ accountability towards integrating sustainability into corporate decision-making, and to promote corporate governance practices that contribute to company sustainability, including corporate reporting, board remuneration, a maximum CEO-to-worker pay ratio, board composition and stakeholder involvement26; __________________ 25 Commission staff working document of 4 March 2021 accompanying its European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan (SWD(2021)0046). 26 Ibid.
Amendment 139 #
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, health and safety, social protection and working conditions; 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; stresses that this due diligence should not be too costly or burdensome for companies, in particular SMEs and VSEs;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the EU to ensure that employees are also represented on boards in European-scale companies, above all when those companies make use of EU legislation for the purposes of cross- border company restructuring and mobility;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that many shortcomings in EU law would be overcome by introducing thresholds for a minimum EU standard of board-level representatCalls on the Commission uander this new framework directive; considers, to this end, that workers’ representatives should have the following number/proportion of seats on boards: 2 or 3 seats in small companies with 50 to 250 employees, one third of all seats in companies with 250 to 1 000 employees, and half of all seats in big companies with more than 1 000 employees (within the company and its direct or indirect subsidiaries)e Member States to promote better employee representation on company boards;