Annual report - HSE

Regular cooperation with trade unions and workers’ councils of the HSE Group is a practice
that was introduced along with the establishment of the HSE Group. Such method of
cooperation ensures a balance of various interests and, consequently, a broad consensus
regarding both the Group’s development plans as well as provision of social security for
employees.
Trade union activities
Trade union activities at DEM, SENG, TET and TEŠ are co-ordinated by Sindikat delavcev
dejavnosti energetike Slovenije (SDE – the Slovene Power Sector Union), one of the
strongest within Zveza svobodnih sindikatov Slovenije (ZSSS – the Association of Free
Trade Unions of Slovenia).
The SDE’s Electrical Energy Sector Conference encompasses the Coordination of union
activities of the HSE Group, which is comprised of trade union representatives of DEM,
SENG, TET and TEŠ. The Coordination communicates directly with HSE’s management as
well as with the managing directors of individual companies, thus ensuring that issues are
addressed in a timely manner. Such cooperation also extends to the Joint Workers’ Council
of the HSE Group.
Operating within the HSE Group there are also the trade unions Neodvisnost and Sindikat
pridobivanja energetskih surovin Slovenije (SPESS – Union of Coalminers), which operates
within the PV Group.
The actions of the SDE Coordination and other trade unions operating within the HSE
Group have a cohesive function.
HSE Group Joint Workers’ Council
HSE Group employees exercise their right to participate in management through workers’
councils of individual companies. Among other things, the councils elect employee
representatives to the company’s Supervisory Board. On the basis of the Agreement on
the establishment of a Joint Workers’ Council for related companies, the workers’ councils
of the HSE Group established the Joint Workers’ Council ( JWC).
The JWC is responsible for addressing issues concerning employees in all related
companies, which include: the annual report of HSE and HSE Group, development strategy
and business policy, changes in activities and status changes within the HSE Group,
sale of individual companies and significant changes in ownership, common platforms
for resolving individual issues, and status and rights of workers, such as: a common
methodological approach for classification and evaluation of work, use of common
resources of the workers’ standard, education policy and occupational health and safety.
In addition, the JWC’s task is to supervise implementation of the Worker Participation
in Management Act. The JWC thus acts as a facilitator between all employees of the
HSE Group, cooperates with the management in a manner laid down by the law and
the Participation agreement and, together with the union, represents the interests of
employees. An important contribution of the JWC to the successful business policy of the
HSE Group is the unanimous support of common projects defined in the development
plans of the HSE Group.
Economic and Social Council (ESC)
In 2010, and Economic and Social Council (ESC) was founded with the goal of intensifying
cooperation between the management or management boards, workers’ councils and
representative labour unions in the HSE Group companies.
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