The Chamber of Deputies passed the new social dialogue law by which the trade unions get new rights and powers in relation to employers. Under the new law, trade unions can carry out activities of a political nature. Thus, the express prohibition from the old legislation has disappeared. Also, the number of employees required to create a trade union in an institution or company decreases from 15 to 10. In the absence of a representative trade union, the threshold required to declare a strike has significantly decreased (from half plus one of the number of employees to a quarter).
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