Belgium: the Social Partners adopt a code of conduct to combat discrimination

While they adopted collective labor agreement (CCT) No. 95, the interprofessional Social Partners also revised the provisions regarding equal treatment in CCT No. 38 to extend it to all steps in the labor relationship. They also developed a code of conduct for employers and workers concerning the recruitment and selection policy to ensure that all applicants get equal opportunities. (Ref. 080818)
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In the body of CCT No. 38, the Social Partners added “that the employer is bound to respect the principle of equal treatment as aimed at in collective labor agreement No. 95 of October 10, 2008 regarding equal treatment during all the steps of the labor relationship” (see our dispatch No. 080788). Besides, the signatory parties “commit to use the authority they have on their members so they respect, in terms of recruitment and selection, the regulations as determined in articles 8 and 18 of the

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