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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - IG Metall demands more participation and an end to the double voting rights for supervisory board chairmen in stock corporations.
In particular, when it comes to location decisions, it is not enough to act only according to the interests of the shareholders, said the head of the IG Metall district in the middle, Jörg Köhlinger, of the German press agency.
In times of strong public support for companies during the corona pandemic, all interest groups would have to be taken into account.
"It's about thousands of fates and the preservation of industrial jobs," said the unionist on the case of the automotive supplier Continental, which wants to cut 13,000 jobs in Germany alone and to close production plants in Aachen and in the Hessian locations of Babenhausen and Karben.
The austerity program was decided in 2019 against the votes of the employee representatives and should now be carried out without compromises, said Köhlinger.
"But this man-in-the-house attitude is not enough to cope with the transformation of the automotive industry."
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The double vote of the chairman, provided by the capital, comes into play if there is a stalemate in votes in a supervisory board with equal representation.
This ensures that the employer can always outvote the employees in case of doubt.
IG BCE has also spoken out in favor of changing the Codetermination Act with a view to Conti supervisory board chairman Wolfgang Reitzle.
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