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Half the supervisory board in state-owned companies. Slovenia: 1991 Constitution art 75, and 1993 law. 50% - 33.3%: 50: Between a third and a half of seats in companies with supervisory board plus management board member if more than 500 employees; around a third in companies with single tier board Spain: Law 41/1962, repealed 1980: 0%: N/A
Employees and national unions have equal representation on the supervisory board with the stockholders, but the board’s chairman must be a stockholder who has a tie-breaking vote. [ 5 ] The principle is to have almost equal representation between employee representatives and shareholder representatives on the supervisory board ( Aufsichtsrat ).
In joint stock company (S.A.), the appointment of the Supervisory Board is mandatory regardless of the share capital, size, and the number of shareholders. The competences of the Supervisory Board are broad and include both the oversight of the management board’s activities and the performance of specific control tasks.
It applies to public and private companies, so long as there are over 2,000 employees. For companies with 500–2,000 employees, one third of the supervisory board must be elected. There is also legislation in Germany, known as the Betriebsverfassungsgesetz whereby workers are entitled to form Works Councils at the local shop floor level.
A company wide codetermination referendum would be held in firms with over 2000 employees, with the entire workforce voting. After approval, only union members would be able to vote for candidates to the supervisory board. Shareholders and unions would appoint x representatives each.
The National Labor Relations Board, an agency within the United States government, was created in 1935 as part of the National Labor Relations Act. Among the NLRB's chief responsibilities is the holding of elections to permit employees to vote whether they wish to be represented by a particular labor union.
Self-management of an organization may coincide with employee ownership of that organization, but self-management can also exist in the context of organizations under public ownership and to a limited extent within private companies in the form of co-determination and worker representation on the board of directors.
Workers had been enticed to invest an average of 62.5 per cent of their retirement savings from 401(k) plans in Enron stock, against basic principles of prudent, diversified investment, and had no board representation. This meant, employees lost a majority of pension savings. [127]