The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Employee Involvement) (Great Britain) Regulations 2009

Misuse of procedures

22.—(1) If an employees’ representative, or an employee for whom there is no such representative, believes that a participating company or an SE is misusing or intending to misuse the SE or the powers in these Regulations for the purpose of—

(a) depriving the employees of that participating company or of any of its concerned subsidiaries or, as the case may be, of the SE or of any of its subsidiaries of their rights to employee involvement, or

(b) withholding rights from any of the employees referred to in sub-paragraph (a),

the representative or, as the case may be, the employee may make a complaint to the CAC.

(2) Where a complaint is made to the CAC under paragraph (1)—

(a) before registration of the SE, or

(b) within the period of 12 months following the date of its registration,

the CAC must uphold the complaint unless the respondent proves that it did not misuse or intend to misuse the SE or the powers in these Regulations for a purpose specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (1).

(3) If it finds the complaint to be well founded, the CAC—

(a) must make a declaration to that effect, and

(b) may make an order requiring the participating company or the SE, as the case may be, to take such action as is specified in the order to ensure that the employees referred to in paragraph (1)(a) are not deprived of their rights to employee involvement or that such rights are not withheld from them,

and the provisions of regulations 20(6) to (9) and 21 apply where the CAC makes a declaration or order under this paragraph as they apply where it makes a declaration or order under regulation 20(4).