The Federal act on a unified regulation of dismissals for blue and white collar workers has passed the council of ministers. Two years ago the Constitutional Court had already concluded that a different approach of both categories was unconstitutional (see the July Newsletter). The act has to be applied from 1 January 2014.
French: https://vbo-feb.be/fr-be/Dossiers/Concertation-sociale ...
Dutch: https://vbo-feb.be/nl-BE/Actiedomeinen/Sociaal-overleg ...
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.