The Spanish Confederation of Employers' Organizations (CEOE) vies the draft of a bill for a new chamber of commerce law is not meeting the common interest of the employers organizations and Spanish businesses. Employers organizations fear that the executive is changing the law just to preserve the status quo.
Annual membership fees to belong to the Chamber of Commerce will dissapear and be substituted with payments from big companies that are also very important to the CEOE. Another area that won't be resolved: redundant jobs that exist at both the Chambers of Commerce and employers' organizations will not be trimmed down.
The CEOE has asked that the bill be filtered through the Consejo Económico y Social, a board with relatively more power that is dedicated to analyzing social and economic issues. In reality, the solution for the chambers and the CEOE is to apply the same level of efficiencies and modernization that other intitutions have been asked to deliver.
