Traduction de «Management-worker consultation » (Anglais → Français) :

1. Requests the Commission to submit as soon as possible, on the basis of Article 225 of the Treaty and after consulting social partners, a proposal for a legal act on Information and consultation of workers, anticipation and management of restructuring, following the detailed recommendations set out in the Annex hereto;

– having regard to the assessment of the European added value of an Union measure on information and consultation of workers, anticipation and management of restructuring process, carried out by the European Added Value Unit of the European Parliament and transmitted to the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs on 19 November 2012 ,

Through European works councils, workers are informed and consulted at transnational level by management on the progress of the business and any significant decisions that could affect them.

5. Points out that the rules governing corporate governance are generally designed to maintain a duality of power within the collegiate decision-making body by distinguishing between management and supervisory functions so as to limit conflicts of interest but stresses that non-executive structures may, besides their monitoring task, also have vital advisory, mediating and networking functions, and a particular role in linking up with societal demands and general interest. These rules are also designed to strengthen the role and rights of shareholders, in particular through better information and financial transparency. However, the rece ...[+++]nt financial scandals and the way they have affected the system as a whole offer grounds for a broader approach to matters of corporate governance; requests therefore that, in addition to the interests of institutional or individual shareholders, which are dealt with in depth in the communication, the Commission should take explicit account of the interests of all other stakeholders (employees, creditors, clients, suppliers, etc.) in the various proposals it will be submitting as part of its action plan, giving particular weight to the principle of corporate social and environmental responsibility; emphasises that decent structures and practices of information and consultation of workers form an indispensable part of European corporate governance and is of the opinion that all European company law directives should contain obligations for information and consultation of employee representatives where major decisions are at stake for the continuity of firms and jobs.

As their response to the consultation launched by the Commission, the social partners have established preliminary orientations for managing the social consequences of restructuring, which include the effective involvement of workers in managing change and which constitute a useful basis for further work on this issue.

Many agreements bear out the contribution made by dialogue at this level to managing and anticipating change, by extending worker information and consultation to matters such as equal opportunities, training, mobility and environment policy and also, in some cases, by providing for negotiated commitments on the implementation of restructuring and the management of industrial change.