90. An employer shall not refuse to conduct labour negotiations.

(c) To work for the harmonization of labour legislations and collective bargaining in member countries

For this reason they can resort to voluntary means of resolving collective labour disputes, such as direct and immediate negotiations, negotiations through intermediaries, voluntary labour arbitration, means of public pressure.

This is a point on which management and labour insisted very strongly during the negotiation of the Protocol.

The latter has initiated negotiations on employment conditions.

For non manual employees the negotiations normally take place on the basis of a standard wage system, though with different seniority rates.

Now, as this labor agreement is about to enter the last year, James will be in the forefront of labor negotiations as the vice chairman of NBA player union.

In the private sector, where such differences sometimes existed, they were usually to be found in the smaller companies that were not subject to labour legislation and collective bargaining.

89. Collective bargaining is regulated in chapter IV of the Labour Code.

Exchange of information, consultation and negotiation

Funding for the negotiation process

Hence, the question of investment negotiations was premature.

The national minimum wage is determined at the negotiating table by the Labor Consultative Commission, where Government, Employers and Trade Unions are represented.

A collective agreement is a legal contract between employers and trade unions as bargaining agents for units of workers, within the industrial relations context (see section B).

Some of the seminars focused on the role of tripartite bodies for economic and social consultation, collective bargaining practices and legislative arrangements, procedures for the settlement of labour disputes and the role of labour courts.

ILO Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98)

In fact, the previous Labour Law prohibited independent labour unions and collective bargaining.

(a) to supplement limited regular budget resources in financing the negotiating process and

Despite the agreed levels, the international financial organizations have a limiting influence on collective bargaining, and thereby the lowest labour price is the basis for salary calculations.

(a) To negotiate with a representative trade union for the conclusion of a collective labour contract (art. 52, para. 1, item 1, of the Labour Code)

This programme has been supported by the International Labour Office and is currently negotiating financing from Canada apos s International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development.

Employers are not included in negotiations on collective contracts and, as a result, minimum wages are not attractive for a young, highly productive workforce.

One reason seems to be the lack of any tradition of labour organizing and collective bargaining in Cambodia.

39. Draft article 17 (Exchange of information, consultation and negotiation) contained a reasonably formulated provision on negotiation and agreement.

New collective agreements concluded thanks to these negotiations will be the main source of the labour law.

The decision of each board on funding requirements would form the basis of those negotiations, which could produce multi year pledges.

During the negotiations this year, Palau called for an interim prohibition on unregulated bottom trawling, as there is currently no effective mechanism for ensuring the sustainability of marine living resources in the high seas.

287. The government is attempting, and is already negotiating with the Dominican business community and with foreign investors, to improve the conditions of workers in the industrial export processing zones and to open up new duty free zones.

There the employer and the representative trade union organization (arts. 50 59 of the Labour Code) are the parties empowered to negotiate.

(a) to supplement limited regular budget resources in financing the negotiating process and

The material might also serve as background information for trade negotiations.

Each can augment the other.

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While new investment in the garment and other industries brings thousands of new jobs and a significant injection of capital into Cambodia apos s small economy, such labour intensive industries also present a significant possibility of abuse owing to the enormous gap in the bargaining positions of labour and management.

Lord Allenby, could you give a few words about Lawrence?

The Government reported that his name was in fact Sulaiman Yusuf and he had been involved in labour negotiations with Industri Karet Deli.

In the collective bargaining area East (the new Länder) the public service employees receive at present 82 per cent of the pay rates applicable in the collective bargaining area West, and as from October 1995 they will be paid 84 per cent.

He said that Thailand was currently engaged in a number of trade negotiations involving investment issues. UNCTAD support in defining the development aspects of such negotiations was required.

Thanks IDB for contributing to the financing of the First Round of the Trade Negotiations.

The new Labour Law is in many respects similar to the previous 1992 State of Cambodia Labour Law with the addition of important provisions allowing the right to form unions, the right to collective bargaining, the right to strike and the right to bring legal action if the employer refuses to bargain.

Moreover, there ought to be more coordination between national investment policies and IIA negotiations.

During the negotiations none of the labour activists, including Sulaiman Yusuf, had been subjected to pressure, torture or ill treatment.

The Conference is a negotiating body and the focus of all its efforts should be negotiations.

The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations reports every two years on the effects of bargaining on the employment of women as part of the Government's responsibilities under the above mentioned Act.

The peace agreement is the result of political talks at the negotiation table.