ASALMA - Agrupación de Sociedades Laborales de Madrid

Representation and support for worker-owned businesses

ASALMA is the Association of Worker-Owned Companies of Madrid, a business organization devoted to representing, promoting, and strengthening worker-owned and employee-participation companies, as well as the social economy across the Community of Madrid. With four decades of activity, it describes itself as a regional point of reference for starting and supporting entrepreneurs and businesses using this model.

Who it serves

ASALMA works with entrepreneurs who want to form a worker-owned company, businesses already established under this structure, and collective entrepreneurship initiatives. It also develops targeted projects for the retail and service sectors to speed up their digital transition and strengthen their competitiveness.

Services

• Entrepreneur support.
• Employment advice.
• Legal advice.
• Tax advice.
• Accounting and tax services.
• Financial and economic advice.
• Grant and subsidy administration.
• Communications and marketing.
• Training.

Projects and programs

ASALMA leads several initiatives of its own and in collaboration with government agencies:

• CRIO Project (Company Creation and Equal Opportunities): A strategic initiative to increase the formation of worker-owned companies while promoting equal opportunity, particularly women’s access to social-economy entrepreneurship. It is co-funded by the European Social Fund Plus.
• E-Social Hub: A meeting place for collective entrepreneurship, supported by a multidisciplinary technical team.
• Agreements with the City of Madrid and business incubators operated with the Fuenlabrada City Council (CIFE).
• PAE service point and technical management services, including assistance with grants to start a worker-owned company.
• Training School and an entrepreneurship portal with information on collective entrepreneurship and worker-owned companies.

Representation and partnerships

Worker-owned companies are part of Spain’s social economy, regulated by Law 5/2011. In this field, ASALMA belongs to LABORPAR, the Spanish Business Federation of Worker-Owned and Employee-Participation Companies, and CEPES, the Spanish Business Confederation of the Social Economy.

It also works with organizations including the Community of Madrid’s Department of Economy and Finance; the City of Madrid’s Department of Economy and Finance and Social Economy Promotion Council; the city councils of Getafe, Móstoles, Fuenlabrada, and Majadahonda; and the Complutense University’s School of Cooperative Studies.

Contact

Phone: 91 522 15 33 or 91 737 51 57. General email: asalma@asalma.org. The organization has teams covering management, technical direction, technical administration, tax, employment and accounting advice, legal advice, projects, and shared services, with direct email contacts for each area.

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