Re: Agenda item 3: Discharge of the Management Board
The Association of Ethical Shareholders Germany proposes that the Board of Management of Brenntag SE be denied discharge.
Reason:
The Management Board is failing to fulfil its human rights and social responsibilities towards
its own employees.
Labour rights: Contradiction between human rights obligations and practice
Brenntag’s conduct in its US business operations stands in stark contradiction to its own corporate guidelines and human rights declaration. There, under point 2 (‘Freedom of association, right to collective bargaining’), Brenntag expressly undertakes to respect the right of employees ‘to join or not to join a trade union or employee representative body of
their choice without threat or intimidation’, as well as to recognise the right to collective bargaining and to ensure that employee representatives are neither disadvantaged nor favoured. Weiterlesen
