Spanish term (edited): Comit� de empresa

Según la base de datos EMIRE (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions):

Comité de empresa - Workers' committee
Organ of workforce representation in enterprises or workplaces with 50 or more employees; its purpose is to defend and promote employees' interests at work. (Its name in Spanish must not be confused with that of the European Works Council .) In contrast to trade union representatives, its members (5-75, depending on the size of the enterprise or workplace) are elected by and from among all the employees ( union elections ) and hold their mandate for four years. Its powers and responsibilities include the right to negotiate company or workplace agreements; the right to information or consultation on financial, commercial and labour matters; responsibility for supervising and monitoring compliance with regulations on labour matters, social security, employment and health and safety; and the right to take administrative and legal action. Its members must observe professional confidentiality . In contrast to the situation in other countries, the role of the workers' committee in Spain is principally one of opposition, rather than of involvement in joint management. It occupies a central position in the Spanish industrial relations system both because of its powers and responsibilities and because of its ability to bring trade union activities and programmes into the enterprise and workplace, given that, although it is not union-based, it has from the start been influenced and even dominated by the trade unions . See also workers' delegates , facilities for workers' representatives , guarantees for workers' representatives , staff councils.