The ABC of the RRI: let’s decipher the legal concepts of cooperativism!
When we enter the world of cooperativism in its more theoretical-legal side we find ourselves talking about resources, documents, various bureaucracy that we often don’t understand. The legal, corporate or economic management aspects are often cumbersome for people who are not used to these terms and on many occasions, we derive or outsource the management of these tasks to third parties or professional entities to take care of them.
But one of the aspects that we consider most transformative of the cooperative model is that it precisely seeks to democratize the knowledge that is generated around the management of a collective project and it is for this reason that from Coòpolis we have the challenge and the will to work to make it understandable and attractive.
Today we delve into the RRI: Internal Regime Regulation
what is it
According to art. 2 of the Cooperatives Law, 12/2015, are the rules of internal operation (1) or the functional organization of the cooperative (2), of a discretionary nature (3) and which do not require a public deed or registration in the Register of Cooperatives (4)
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They are the series of agreements that members of the cooperative make by consensus to organize their work within the collective project: we talk about timetables, the work calendar, how we organize holidays, what conciliation measures we implement , etc…
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We talk about how we organize the cooperative to deploy our products or services: we decide if we work and group by areas of expertise, if we work by commissions, who is responsible for what, how we divide the reproductive tasks (that is, those are necessary for the cooperative, but do not generate income directly), etc.
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Optional in nature, it means that it is a document that we make voluntarily, that no one obliges us. If there is no internal regime, the labor agreements that affect the partners will be the same as those set out in the regulatory agreement of the sector in question or, ultimately, in the Workers’ Statute.
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It is a document for internal use by the group and does not need to be registered with any body or legally validated. Does this mean it is not legally valid? On the contrary! Being a document agreed upon and approved by a two-thirds majority in a general assembly of the cooperative, it prevails over any other document that regulates the same aspects in a generic way.
The cooperative support area of Coòpolis has worked to produce this outline-summary that outlines the content of the RRI and the steps to carry it out.
In addition, we link you to some of the most interesting content on aspects to take into account when working on this internal document of your cooperative.
- How to create an organization’s internal regime regulation. Network
- Tool for developing internal regime regulations with a feminist perspective. Feminist at least
Remember that at Coòpolis we can accompany you in the process of doing this internal work and help you transfer agreements from paper to reality.
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