This reform will be a crucial change for many employers, because as of now the employers can get covered by the higher level collective agreement without any previous participation in the negotiation of such collective agreement. Faced with a significant drop in the number of employees covered by collective agreements, the Ministry of Work, Social Affairs and Family wanted to contain this phenomenon and increase the number of employees who can be covered by a collective agreement. It also argued that the new regulation shall prevent social dumping between employers who must fulfill additional obligations towards their employees arising from concluded collective agreements and those employers that are totally exempt. In 2007 already, the Parliament adopted a law which facilitated the extension of collective agreements to an entire sector by removing the former requirement of the employer’s consent (see our dispatch No. 080254). However, because of opposition from the employers and opposition parties, which turned to the Constitutional Court, this rule wasn’t applied in practice and the government had to come up with a new text.
law which facilitated the extension of collective agreements to an entire sector by removing the former requirement of the employer’s consent (see our dispatch No. 080254). However, because of opposition from the employers and opposition parties, which turned to the Constitutional Court, this rule wasn’t applied in practice and the government had to come up with a new text.
New conditions. The new regulation enables the Ministry to extend the collective agreement to a whole sector. this extensio
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