Belgium: social partners talking to fight discriminations better

Belgian social partners started, in compliance with their interprofessional agreement for 2007-2008 (see our article No. 061296), talks to revise the labor collective agreement (CCT) concerning the recruitment and selection of workers, in order to strengthen the fight against discriminations in the employment relation. (Ref. 080188)
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Gathered within the National labor Council (CNT), social partners started talks on the revision of the labor collective agreement No. 38 concerning the recruitment and selection of workers. The Council heard representatives from the Center for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (http://www.diversite.be/) evaluate its activities in 2007 (500 complaints concerned employment issues, and 173 of those were about recruitment); the representatives also presented a list of propositions which

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