On the menu: Brazil’s Bolsonaro government puts forward its pension reform, Google U.S. drops its arbitration clause for all employment-related disputes, 500 Spanish workers travel to the Netherlands to protest abusive working conditions, Cuba’s new constitution recognizes the ‘private sector company’, in the UK employees with disabilities are to have co-signed employer/employee disability passports, and a Finland’s social partners launch a national work-related debate.
Brazil/Bolsonaro’s government puts forward its pension reform. On 20 February 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro presented the main element of his economic reform program to parliament, namely his pension reform proposal that is seen as fundamental to rebalancing the nation’s accounts. President Bolsonaro argues that these pension reforms will lead to savings of €250 billion over 10 years and bring the current main pension schemes’ almost €70 billion deficit back into balance. This new government i
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