The Council of Ministers adopted, on June 18, the bill for the reorganization of social democracy and for the reform of working time. This bill amends unions' representativeness regulations, which will now be based on the results of the professional elections, and use the voting rate as a starting point in the company. This reform of the legal frame should disrupt the union landscape. (Ref. 080512)
Negotiation with the social partners. The government, which set the union representativeness issue as a condition for the modernization of industrial relations, invited the social partners to negotiate, and they agreed on a “joint position on representativeness, the development of social dialogue and the financing of union organizations” on April 9. However, all the negotiators didn’t sign this position. The organizations which felt threatened by the new regulations (FO, CFTC, CFE-CGC) mentione
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