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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - The influence of supervisory board chairmen in votes should be more limited, according to IG Metall state chief Roman Zitzelsberger.
"It would be good for codetermination if the double vote generally fell," said Zitzelsberger of the German press agency.
"But it must definitely be questioned when it comes to site closings."
The double vote 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 employee representatives in case of doubt.
If you actually want participation on an equal footing, that's a contradiction, said Zitzelsberger.
"If you have good arguments, you can find solutions for them," he emphasized.
"If you don't have that, you have to be content with the fact that such a decision in a supervisory board does not come about."
A stalemate is not the end, said the IG Metall district manager, referring to the example of collective bargaining.
There, too, a compromise is struggled hard and often to the limit of resilience, without either side having a second vote.
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"If that works in collective bargaining, where it is sometimes in the double-digit billions, why shouldn't it also work at the level of co-determination in the companies?" Said Zitzelsberger.
Overall, he is concerned that - especially when it comes to closing or relocating locations - the employees in many companies are heard as interlocutors, but are often ignored as a result.