... contains nothing about the Works Constitution Act
The pillars of the company are "justice, openness, and common sense," not the Works Constitution Act. "With all due respect for the protection of minorities," he does not understand the "legislator when a 9% majority can dictate the conditions to the others," wrote Plattner. Around 91% of the staff at the SAP headquarters in Walldorf had voted against a works council.
First of all, to Heise: that was 91% of the employees who participated in the election. That is significantly less than 91% of the entire staff, even at the headquarters. But never mind. Because the real bombshell is that the company's co-founder and current chairman of the supervisory board actually believes that the Works Constitution Act is not the basis of his company. Dreamer. Funny enough, it's in the law book, Mr. Plattner. How stupid do you have to be as a company boss to let something so rarely stupid slip out? Well, it will probably be the new unit of measurement for company boss stupidity: one Plattner = ignoring an entire set of laws ...
According to Spiegel, the company now wants to propose its own electoral committee for the works council elections, which will most likely consist of employee representatives of the supervisory board and not those colleagues who wanted to enforce the works council with the support of IG Metall. The company would thus preempt the labor court, which could appoint an electoral committee.
Oh, and the electoral committee does not prescribe anything at all - and has nothing to do with the protection of minorities. The electoral committee simply ensures the proper conduct of works council elections, nothing more. And whether an electoral committee appointed by such a stupid company management is capable of doing so, I dare to doubt.
Perhaps it's time for the company management to finally understand what works council elections are: the election of employee representatives by all employees of a company. Regardless of how few are the reason for the election, every employee (ok, a few exceptions with AT contracts exist) may vote, and almost everyone may stand for election (a few more exceptions compared to the active right to vote - executive employees are excluded from the passive right to vote). And yes, this usually means that in companies of corresponding size, several lists are up for election - usually one from the union (or more correctly, a list of unionized employees) and often a list of loyalists. There is no limit to this - how about a list of women working in the company? That could certainly be interesting for SAP. Or a list of young employees. Or simply a list of those who don't feel like having a works council, even that would be completely legal.
But to understand this, the people at SAP would have to take the trouble to read the Works Constitution Act. You can't expect such idiots to do that, instead they prefer to embarrass themselves publicly ...