RSA CGIL SAP Italia Vimercate – SE SNB Rep. ITALY UNION COMMUNIQUE'

On March 10th, 2014, after six months’ negotiations, SAP Employees’ Representatives and SAP Management signed an Agreement on the involvement of Employees in the future SAP SE (SAP “Societas Europea” or “European Company”).

For a general background on Societas Europea (SE) please refer to the European Trade Union Institute website: http://www.worker-participation.eu/European-Company-SE/Frequent-Questions).

This “Agreement on the Involvement of Employees in SAP SE” regulates the establishment, the scope and competence of the SE Works Council (i.e. the body composed by the Employee’s Representatives of each country that will replace the current European Work Council), the Information and Consultation Obligations of SAP Management towards the SE Works Council and the employees’ representatives participation in the Supervisory Board of SAP SE.

The text signed on March 10th is available on the SAP Intranet.

RSA CGIL SAP Italia Vimercate - SE SNB Rep. UNION COMMUNIQUE' 

On March 2013 the Supervisory Board of SAP AG approved the proposal of the Executive Board to prepare the conversion of the legal form of the company into a European Company‘Societas Europeae’ (SE).

Under the SE Directive, and its transpostion in the SE German law, the creation of a European Company will require negotiations between Central Management and a Special Negotiation Body compsed of employees' representative.

Negotiation topics will be:

• Participation of employees in the Supervisory Board of SAP SE: number of seats, allocation of seats among different countries.
• Determination of the procedure for the information and consultation of employees by the establishment of an SE Works Council.

The first meeting of the SE Special Negotiation Body will take place in Walldorf between September 9th and 13th.