patronal

English translation: employers / the employers' representatives

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Spanish term or phrase:	la patronal
English translation:	employers / the employers' representatives
Entered by:	Fabio Descalzi

03:12 Oct 25, 2006

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Spanish term or phrase: patronal

Could anyone explain what the following sentence means?

La patronal vasca estudia llevar a la UE la suspension del Impuesto de Sociedades autonomico.

I would be most grateful if anyone could shed a little light on this.

Renee Borio KudoZ activity Questions: 68 (1 open) (3 without valid answers) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 0 United States
Local time: 20:07

employers

Explanation:
"La patronal" is always the collective of employers, as opposed to "los empleados", the collective of employees.
In general, "patronal" refers as well to the employers' organization.

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Fabio Descalzi
Uruguay
Local time: 21:07

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employers

Fabio Descalzi

Association/Confederation/Organization of Employers

Matthew Smith

business representatives

Mar Brotons

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1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

employers

Explanation:
"La patronal" is always the collective of employers, as opposed to "los empleados", the collective of employees.
In general, "patronal" refers as well to the employers' organization.

Fabio Descalzi
Uruguay
Local time: 21:07
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

3 hrs confidence:

Association/Confederation/Organization of Employers

Explanation:
Personally, I think "employers" is too vague: this is an organised body with members, not employers in general. The equivalent in British English would be the the CBI, I believe.

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Note added at 3 horas (2006-10-25 06:45:45 GMT)
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Thinking about it, it's true that the original does not make reference to a formal organisation, but I think this can be inferred. Otherwise it would/should have said "empresarios vascos" or something similar. Good luck.

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Note added at 4 horas (2006-10-25 07:24:59 GMT)
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The complete idea is that the Basque employers' organisation is considering requesting the European Union to suspend/repeal the regional Corporation/Company Tax applied in the Basque Country.

Matthew Smith
Spain
Local time: 02:07
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

10 hrs confidence:

business representatives

Explanation:
I agree with Mathew's comment on the vagueness of "employers", and think his answer is also correct. This is just another possibility.

The "opposite" of patronal would be sindicatos (trade unions).

Reference: http://www.unionlearn.org.uk/about/learn-744-f0.cfm

Mar Brotons
Spain
Local time: 02:07
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

Catalan

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