Brazil: supervision of the right to strike in public services postponed to 2014

Brazil postponed to 2014 the adoption of a law on an obligation of minimum service in public services when there is a strike, after several meetings between the Members of Parliament and the social partners in recent months failed.  They disagree on the bill’s measures.  (Ref.  130826)
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The last-chance meeting between union representatives and MPs to reach, in 2013, an agreement on the supervision of the right to strike in public services failed on Tuesday, December 17. The right to strike is granted by the 1988 Constitution (Article 37). In public services, there shouldn’t be any “imbalance” compared with the private sector, according to Romero Jucá, Senator in the State of Roraima (north west, on the border of Venezuela and Guyana), the rapporteur of the future draft bill.

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