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This is the opinion we received from the main Italian trade
union (CISL) about the European Commission staff working paper on financial
participation of employees in the EU:
CISL - ITALIAN CONFEDERATION
OF WORKER'S TRADE UNIONS
Dipartimento Democrazia Economia, Economia
Sociale
Fisco e
Previdenza
Marc Mathieu
Secretary General EFES
Rome,
29 october 2001
Dear
Marc,
I
send you Cisl opinion on Commission Staff working-paper "Finacial partecipation
of employees in the European Union"
I've
already sent this opinion to the Euopean Commission, Directorate general for
Employement - Rue de La Loi, 200.
I
hope that these considerations can be useful to improve the staff-working
paper.
Best regards
Cisl National Secretary
(Pier Paolo
Baretta)
CISL
ITALIAN CONFEDERATION OF WORKERS' TRADE UNIONS
Cisl
opinion on the Commission staff
working paper
Financial
participation of employees in the European Union
Brussels,
26.7.2001 - SEC(2001)1308 -
The
Commission staff working paper is a good opportunity to rilaunch the European
initiative about employee financial partecipation
.
As
for the five questions put by the working paper ( see pag 12 ) we think that
:
1)
We
agree on the first question : a Commission plan for a Community initiative on
financial participation .
2) To
accomplish the first and the other four questions the Commission should carry out the European Parliament
Resolution on the Commission report on PEPPER II ( 15 January 1998). In that
Resolution the Europen Parliament
calls on the Commission :
·
to
conduct a study into the impact of financial participation schemes in member
states on employment , prodictivity and wage flexibility , and to assess the
conditions for introducing such schemes in enterprises , in particular small and
medium-sized enterprises;
·
to
implement an adequately financed programme
to promote the exchange of information and best practice , together with
training for both sides of industry in financial participation
schemes;
·
to
set up a working party consisting of representatives of both sides of industry ,
members of the European Parliament and Commission experts to promote the
introduction of PEPPER schemes in equivalent conditions throughout the Community
, in particular in transnational enterprises ; the working party should consider
all aspects of financial participation which are of relevance to the EU ,
particulary those outlined in its opinion of 9 April 1992 referred to above
;
·
to
study the need for a Community initiative concerning aspects of policy on
capital , for example a recommendation on the coordination or harmonization of
support for enterprises with a European dimension or to ensure the promotion of
capital -forming payments to or by migrant workers , including where the latter
thereby acquire participating interests in the production sector in their home
country ,
·
to
develop pilot projects
, along the lines it has itself suggested , for the partcipation of undertakings
e.g. in connection with the privatisation of state enterprises , including
projects in the countries of central and eastern Europe
.
3) The
working party
should lay down general principles at Europen level and other measures that the
Commission should include in its action plan.
4) The
working party
should also deal with the problem of transnational obstacles pointing out that
differences in taxation and in compulsory social security contributions on
income from financial participation between Member States seriously hinder
employee ownership in international companies.
5) Finally
we think that a policy of promotion of employee share ownwrship and
participation should have a well dedicated budgetary line .This direction
followed the European Parliament in its Resolution of January 1998 , requesting
from the Commission an adeguate financing .
We
hope that these considerations can be useful to improve the staff working paper
.
Best regards
Cisl National Secretary
Pier Paolo Baretta
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