Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts Constitutional Court (Belgio)

Date: 05/18/2017

Subject: The decision of the Constitutional Court partially suspended article 114/1 of the law of 23 July 1926, concerning SNCB (National Company of Belgian Railways) and the Belgian railways’ employees, as introduced by the law of 3 August 2016, where it excluded “approved” (“agréée”) trade unions from the right to participate to the procedure of forewarning and negotiation in the event of social conflict, in the light of the norms of the ECHR, the European Social Charter and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the jurisprudence of the Courts of Strasbourg and Luxembourg and of the European Committee of social rights

Parties: Syndicat indépendant pour cheminots (SIC) et autres

Original language: Belgian

Classification: Solidarity - Art. 28 Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: negotiations - Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: collective actions

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