Belgium: royal decree on the working conditions of mobile workers engaged in interoperable cross-border services in the railway sector

After ratification by the Council of Ministers on November 7, 2008, a Royal Decree which contains rules on certain aspects of the working conditions of mobile workers engaged in interoperable cross-border services in the railway sector, was published in the Belgian Official Journal (Moniteur Belge) on November 10, 2008. (Ref. 080883)
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The royal decree transposes into Belgian law
directive 2005/47 of July 18, 2005 concerning the agreement between the Community
of European Railways (CER) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF).
It is based on clauses contained in the agreement signed by the European social
partners except for provisions that already exist in Belgian law. Where Belgian
law gives more rights to the workers concerned by this agreement, the text
adapted the agreement’s clauses to introduce them, as th

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