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Meeting of the Category "Workers' Voice for more democratic participation"

08 Nov 2022

10.00 -10.10 | Welcome address
  • Oliver Röpke, President of the EESC Workers' Group
10.10 – 10.20 | Opening
  • Aurelio Fernández López, Spanish Permanent Representation to the EU
10.20 – 11.30 | Democracy at work as a key mechanism supporting the integration of the economic and social dimension of the EU

Moderated by Reiner Hoffmann, EESC Workers' Group Vice-President

Keynote: Rolf Schmachtenberg, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

  • Volker Telljohann, IRES Emilia-Romagna
  • Niklas Selberg, University of Lund, Legal Expert
  • Sissel C. Trygstad, FaFo, Research Director Deputy director

Q+A

11.30 – 12.50 | Decent work and the necessity to codify legally democracy at work starting with the example of due diligence

Moderated by Mari Carmen Barrera Chamorro, EESC rapporteur of Decent work opinion

  • Evelyn Regner, MEP, EP Vice-President, S&D shadow rapporteur of EP EMPL Committee Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (tbc.)
  • Lieve Verboven, Director, ILO for the EU and the BENELUX countries
  • Isabelle Schömann, ETUC Confederal Secretary

Q+A

12.50 - 13.00 | Concluding remarks by Oliver Röpke, President of the EESC Workers' Group