28 Amendments of Edouard MARTIN related to 2015/2222(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
- having regard to the statement of July 2011 by the European Women’s Lobby concerning EU Legislation for the Equal Representation of Women and Men on Corporate Boards,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas a supervisory board is a decision-making body of an undertaking with a particular legal form;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas forms of worker representation and 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 development15; __________________ 15 http://fr.worker- participation.eu/National-Industrial- Relations/Across-Europe/Board-level- Representation2/MAP-Board-level- representation-in-the-European-Economic- Area2Aline Conchon (2015) La voix des travailleurs dans la gouvernance d’entreprise: https://www.etui.org/Publications2/Reports /Workers-voice-in-corporate-governance.- A-European-perspective
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas equality between men and women is a founding principle of the European Union enshrined in European primary law, and whereas gender- balanced representation and diversity of representation of workers on supervisory boards are essential democratic principles with many beneficial economic effects;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas, owing to the existence of a de facto glass ceiling and a ‘male quota’ of 80-90% on companies’ supervisory boards, a large number of women are under-represented in economic decision- making, which has a substantial impact on their working lives, including a lower level of pay and savings than men;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas the causes of women’s under-representation in the economic decision-making of undertakings are linked to the problems of balancing work with personal life, which vary considerably within Europe;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the provision of information to workers, their consultation and their participation in the firm’s decisions are three complementary dimensions of the involvement of workers’ representatives in the firm’s decision-making process;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas the consultation of workers’ representatives constitutes the expression of an opinion which is useful to decision- making and whereas, therefore, links between consultation and participation in decision-making should be fostered, on the basis of arrangements to be defined in line with the respective powers and areas of activity of the bodies on which the workers are represented;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas relations between the European social partners at European level are becoming increasingly close, as evidenced by the steady increase in transnational company agreements (TCAs), including more than 1 000 agreements setting up European Works Councils;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the need to anticipate and assist with changes can only be met by means of a dialogue at the level at which transnational strategic guidelines are drawn up and by effective involvement of worker representatives;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas giving priority to the fundamental economic freedoms in the European Union, in particular the right to property, often leads to the erosion of the national worker representation, not only at supervisory board level;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
Worker representation and participation on supervisory boards – general requirements
Amendment 137 #
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 EUMember States and to counter any attempt to use existing EU law to circumvent or abuse such arrangements by an appropriate by making appropriate changes in the underlying European Treaties or acts;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Council, in the event of new legislative acts, particularly in the area of European company law, to determine and publicise the impact on European and national forms of worker representation and participation through an appropriate impact assessment procedure and take appropriate measures to counter any adverse consequences;
Amendment 167 #
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 and, in particular, changes in the number of employees; calls for employee representation in European company decision-making bodies to comprise a delegation which is recognised as representative of the countries represented;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to introduce in the Directive on transnational mergers of limited liability companies minimum European rules for employee representation on supervisory boards, rather than referring to national legislation;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Asks the Commission to provide that the disclosure of information to company boards should include transnational information and consultation procedures where draft decisions have a transnational impact and significantly affect workers' interests; takes the view, in this connection, that coordination between the transnational information and consultation body set up under Directive 2009/38/EC and worker representation in company boards - where it exists - is imperative;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Asks that provision should be made to ensure that in transnational companies where workers' representatives are effectively represented (or have a real say) in the decision-making bodies, specific deliberations on the opinions adopted by the transnational information and consultation body should be placed on the agenda by workers' representatives who should then provide information on the feedback received;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Provides that employee board members may have recourse to the services of the independent expert mandated by the institutions representing employees where such an independent expert exists;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 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,in conjunction with existing rules on information and consultation;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Believes that workers´ representatives on European supervisory boards shoulddecision-taking bodies should be informed and consulted about or have a say in all fundamental decisions of a company and oversee the management boardimplementation thereof, without interfering in the management board´s right to manage the company;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Stresses that workers' representatives on supervisory boards should have the same rights andfor the same powers as the representatives of the management and / or the owner;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on Member States to adopt new legislation requiring listed and unlisted limited companies with over 50 employees and all public companies to ensure that the representation of women and men on supervisory boards reflects the gender ratio in the company; this must include effective penalties in case of non- compliance;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to introduce new measures to increase the number of women and young people who are often the most under-represented on supervisory boards by limiting the plurality of offices and their duration;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Requests the adoption of flanking measures to support companies in the implementation of such measures and to promote those that have achieved that objective;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Demands that this Directive ensure that the representatives of the workforce may also be from affiliated companies and, in the case of transnational companies, may also originate from anseveral other Member States and that trade union representatives may also be put forward and elected as external representatives;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19