Overview
- CEOE’s executive committee decided Monday to skip Thursday’s meeting called by Vice President Yolanda Díaz to open negotiations on employee voice and vote in company governing bodies.
- Employers denounced the initiative as interventionist and a populist attack on property rights, warning it would erode confidence and deter investment.
- Labour officials said refusing to attend breaks with social dialogue practice and argued the debate follows Spain’s Constitution and models common in many EU countries.
- An expert commission proposed worker codetermination with one third of board seats in firms with 50–1,000 employees and half the seats in companies with more than 1,000, plus minimum employee ownership from 2% rising to 10% in large corporations.
- The ministry planned to present incentives, including tax reductions, fiscal benefits, priority in public procurement, and an index of corporate democratic development to determine eligibility.