SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, LABOUR RIGHTS AND COOPERATIVES: FROM THE UN RESOLUTION AND THE CSDDD TO THE PORTUGUESE COOPERATIVE LAW

Abstract

This paper analyses the relationship between the foreseeable changes that the approval of the CSDDD will bring to workers’ rights in commercial companies in the European Union and the necessary evolution of these rights in the context of cooperative law. In particular, attention is drawn to the need to introduce some changes to the Portuguese legal regime for the workers of the cooperative who, because they are not simultaneously its members, are not covered by the legal rules which are designed exclusively to protect the position of the latter.