Why cooperate with the Czech Confederation of Commerce and Tourism?
What is the confederation good for?
- join your common interests with ours – it is easier to push them through together
- profit from long-time experience, close and permanent contact with modern way of business
- get access to modern up-to-date database of professional knowledge and the best practices
- use confederation’s influence and contacts to solve your own business needs
- together with your own employer's, business and professional interests enforce those common one'
- make yourself connected to the confederation's regional representations for relations with regional governments
- help us - expand the club of top players of the Czech retail and tourism team
- get the professional reputation and image – that comes with membership in the team of Czech Confederation of Commerce and Tourism
- reinforce your company's presentation by a logo of the confederation and capitalize on the many advantages of membership
Help us lobby for law
- protect business and employer's environment and your corresponding interests
- demand necessary changes in business and employer's lawmaking
- have influence on versions and purposefulness of law in inter-sectoral supplementary proceedings
- help us defend the liberal market against superfluous regulation
- participate in the process of making and formulating laws for European and national legislation
Protect your own employer’s rights
- use the influence that arises from the confederation's membership in the delegation of employers within the Council of Economy and Social agreement of the Czech Republic (tripartite)
- help us to influence laws in areas of labour-law, employment and social questions – the confederation is a compulsory body for comments on legal proposals in this area
- draw on the experience and recommendations of the confederation's expert group regarding labour policy and labour-law relations
- protect and assert your fundamental employer's rights and interests. They will be covered and treated by collective agreement of higher level among The Confederation and Trade Union of Workers in Commerce and Czech-Moravian Trade Union of Catering, Hotels and Tourism. Immediate interests of your company will remain as part of the collective bargaining agreement of your enterprise
- take advantage of bipartite negotiations of our confederation and the labour union to discuss social problems and to deal with employer's concerns
We create friendlier entrepreneurial environment
- use the opportunity to have influence on the quality of entrepreneurial rules and its culture
- be the part of a team striving to improve business ethical codes and to introduce corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- participate in subsequent forming of powerful entrepreneurial autonomy
- use direct communication channel with executive, institutional and principal business organizations
- take advantage of functional cooperations of the confederation with Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry for the Regional Development, Ministry of Environment, Czech Statistical Office
- share the advantages of the confederation’s membership in Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic
Enlarge a well-founded source of required information
- help us follow recent pieces of knowledge concerning new forms of business and commercial methods
- participate actively in expert conferences, special seminars and workshops attended by competent professionals
- meet new prospective partners – members of the confederation
- draw on the confederation's unique business statistics as well as macroeconomic data (part of its web-based information system), its library with specialist publications, and from selected and exclusive information elaborated by professional research
Europe – get a slice of the action
- become a part of top European business organization EuroCommerce, Brussels and use the confederation's representation in its board, Steering Committee and in particular committees
- utilize similar possibilities arising from membership in The Czech Association of Hotels and Restaurants, and in HOTREC and IH&RA organizations
- utilize, also, other contacts of the confederation, both to European Commission and to professional European institutions and organizations
- capitalize on confederation’s representation right in Brussels, and relevant contacts with Czech MEP's, as well as the close cooperation with Slovak Confederation of Commerce and Tourism and Confederation of German Retail (HDE) Berlin
- obtain current up-to-date orientation on relevant and applicable European agenda, both from domestic and European point of view
Ask the professionals
- participate in regular professional consultations with the confederation's expert sections for food and nonfood as well as in the confederation's platform for travel industry and gain crucial information
- join round-table discussions, held by the confederation in cooperation with the Czech Inspection Authorities, in order to provide prevention in questions of the sale of food and nonfood products, hygiene, alimentation. Take advantage of immediate consultations and get information concerning goods and operations
- participate in the realization of a National Tourism Policy Concept and the forming of corresponding conditions for business in the travel industry field
- co-operate on enlargement, improving and promotion of the classification of accommodation in order to appear more prestigious
- help us support formation of regional organizations in the travel industry (destination agencies)
- make use of synergy effect from the interconnected activities of the union and its members base in your own marketing plans, in communication with your clients and that sort of thing
- capitalize on the possibility to initiate talks and consultations to meet your particular needs, as well as to engage in subjects among which, due to their topicality, the following can be found:
- protection of economic competition
- dumping prices and pricing bellow cost
- unfair competition
- conditions for businesses on the travel industry field
- hygiene, traceability, labelling and nutrition of food
- correctness in production and hygiene of alimentation
- suitable alimentation and healthy exercising
- copyright law and related rights
- product safety policy
- electronic and electric waste
- protection of goods against theft
- consider the confederation's cooperation as well as the potential of its member's and their partner's interconnection with universities and vocational schools, with research and consulting companies, etc.
Let us assist small and medium enterprises. What does the Confederation offer?
- advocacy and protection of SME interests in the locality (region) of business activity; support of SME´s position and issues on the regional level
- efforts to eliminate excessive bureaucracy and inadequate impact of legislation on SMEs
- cooperation aiming at better organization and integration of SMEs
- targeted orientation in European funds for obtaining business subsidies
- information on the most significant laws and their amendments
- correct answers to professional queries
- obtaining professional knowledge and experience
- advantageous offers of professional training, conferences and seminars
- possibility of consultations and exchange with other entrepreneurs
- access to Confederation’s advisory service by specialists in IT, business technology and services
- use of specialized manuals and publications of the Confederation and its partners
What else will be achieved together?
- we shall help to create a meaningful and professionally influenced development of services and employment
- we will encourage development of other segments of the Czech market, including small and medium-sized enterprises
- we will increase the visibility and the desirable support for enforcing the respect and prestige of commerce
- we will multiply the pressure to reach needed support and quality of particular conditions in tourism
- we will strengthen the influence on creating the positive image of commerce and services in tourism
- our words and activities will be more powerful with your cooperation
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