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Vote on law for meat sector contractors’ joint liability Germany. To the surprise of all, on Thursday 01 June, Germany’s Bundestag announced that the following day it would be voting on a little known law namely, the ‘law guaranteeing workers rights in the meat sector’. The law aims to restrict social dumping in a sector that is prone to all sorts of the same and the text looks to make contractor companies jointly liable for violations of labor law and wage agreements stemming from sub-contractor companies.
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