The Supreme Court rejected an appeal lodged by the employers’ organisation CEOE against Article 5.3 of Royal decree 902/2020 of 13 October 2020 on equality plans, which stipulates that in companies whose workforce has no lawful representation because trade-union elections have not been organised, the power to negotiate equality plans lies with the branch’s most representative trade unions. The CEOE argued that in this case, negotiations should be conducted by ‘ad hoc-committees’, appointed by employees. However, the Supreme Court holds that equality plans must be the object of a company-level agreement, and that ad hoc committees have no negotiating powers.
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