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| Belgium: restructuring in Belgium As France, Belgium balances the right given to management to decide whether restructuring and lay offs must be implemented or not by an obligation to inform and consult workers’ representatives before the decision is definitively taken and the rules have been recently tightened by the introduction of the so called “Renault law” which followed the closure by the French manufacturer of its plant in Vilvoorde. |
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The Belgian negotiation
system, described as “neo corporatism” is based on a
high level of social partner’s involvement in decision making
processes, of which restructuring. Cases studies show three kind
of innovations. Two of them refer to the process: the role of local
actors in maintaining local activities threatened by global restructuring
decisions (Alcatel and Neslté in the Lieges Region) and the
example of a sensitive to workers’ representative proposals
approach when Bio Company faced restructuring. |
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A third innovation is analysed
in the case study dedicated to employers’ grouping that shows
to which extend a foreign setting can be translated in an other
country with different institutional and legal contexts and the
conditions allowing to this flexicurity mechanism to play a role
in a context of restructuring. |
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| Case study BIO, Belgium
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| The management Buy out | ||||||
| Restructuring of the Alcatel factory in Colfontaine | ||||||
