The Role of the Trade Union within the Framework of Company Restructuring Processes: Current Legislation and <i>Lex Ferenda</i> Proposals
Keywords:
Trade unions, micro size firms, restructuring, Sindicatos, microempresas, reestructuraciónAbstract
The aim of this study is to make a specific proposal regarding the capacity of trade unions to represent the interests of all workers in company restructuring operations. We will particularly refer to the case of companies that do not have workers’ representatives; when a restructuring is going to happen in a company, the Spanish Law requires a period of bargaining; and it is difficult to share that workers, in an individual point of view, can bargain in name of other workers; even if he/she has been elected for this occasion. The method used in this work is focussed in a comparison between the rules trade unions have to negotiate and the treatment of trade unions as representatives of workers in the field of the conflict and the strike.
El propósito de este trabajo es hacer una propuesta concreta respecto de la capacidad del sindicato para representar los intereses de todos los trabajadores en el marco de las reorganizaciones de ámbito empresarial, independientemente de la afiliación de aquellos; especialmente nos vamos a referir al caso de las empresas que no cuenten con representantes de los trabajadores. Cuando una empresa comienza una reestructuración en su seno, la ley española exige la apertura de un período de consultas. Parece difícil compartir que los trabajadores, individualmente considerados, puedan negociar en el nombre de otros trabajadores; incluso aunque él/ella haya sido elegido para la ocasión. El método que se utiliza en este trabajo se dirige a comparar las reglas jurídicas sobre la legitimación legal para negociar en la empresa, con el tratamiento deparado a los sindicatos como representantes de los trabajadores para actuar en el marco del conflicto colectivo y la huelga.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1013
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