Yolanda Díaz's second labor reform will make it easier for workers to participate in company decisions

MADRID, 27 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

United We Can has advanced this Friday in Congress that the reform of the Workers' Statute that the Vice President of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, intends to promote, will facilitate the participation of workers in companies, both in decision-making and in the capital of companies.

This was stated by the deputy of United We Can Roberto Uriarte during the inauguration in Congress of the conference 'Democracy in the company', in which he recalled that the co-responsibility of the workers in the government of the company "is a constitutional mandate" .

In this sense, he recalled that the Magna Carta, in its article 129.2, mandates the legislator to prioritize and promote the formation of cooperatives, the participation of workers in the management of companies, as well as their access to capital, but that until now "It has not been able to legislate or offer advantageous conditions to social economy companies or cooperative entrepreneurship."

"It has also not been able to regulate the participation of workers and access to capital, so the mandate remains unfulfilled," explained Uriarte, stressing that Spain is "one of the few countries in the world whose Constitution does care about the corporate governance and establishes an imperative mandate". "But we have been in contempt for 40 years," he has settled.

Despite not attending the conference, the Vice President of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has spoken about this proposal, stressing that "the democratization of companies is one of the great objectives of the new labor framework".

It is not the first time that Díaz has defended this measure, since he has previously advocated promoting the participation of workers in decision-making, in the face of a current model that he considers "monarchical", defending that companies cannot be left out of further democratization of society.

In this sense, United We Can has been registering amendments in legislative projects related to companies to take steps in this direction, although they have encountered misgivings from their own government partner, the PSOE, which has declined to support them or has largely modulated them. extent.

Without going any further, in December 2021 he abstained from a non-law proposal in the Economic Affairs Commission in which United We Can called to favor the management of workers in large companies. The proposal was rejected with votes from the PP and Vox.