Parliament has voted not to readopt, in unchanged form, amendments to a bill which governs the relationship between employers and employees. As a result, the bill amending the Collective Agreements Act, and other acts was not passed and will be further processed in accordance with the law, overseen by the social affairs committee. The bill sought to bring the regulation of extending the term of a collective agreement into line with the constitutionally protected freedom of enterprise, while ensuring the capacity for social partnership and collective inclusion.
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For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org. For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit https://www.etui.org/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
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