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The General Labour Federation of Belgium (French: Fédération générale du travail de Belgique, pronounced [fedeʁɑsjɔ̃ ʒeneʁal dy tʁavaj də bɛlʒik], FGTB; Dutch: Algemeen Belgisch Vakverbond, pronounced [ˈɑlɣəmeːn ˈbɛlɣis ˈfɑkfərˌbɔnt], ABVV) is a socialist national trade union federation in Belgium. It was founded in 1945.
In 1997 Renault announced the closure of its Vilvoorde factory with the loss of 3,097 jobs. The job losses were announced without any prior consultation or warning. The announcement caused a 20% rise in the company's share price, but caused substantially negative labour relations issues, including strikes and other actions at a Belgian and European level in support of the affected workers.
The General Labour Confederation of Belgium (Dutch: Belgisch Vakverbond, BVV; French: Confédération Générale du Travail de Belgique, CGTB) was a socialist national trade union federation in Belgium active between 1937 and 1944 when it was superseded by the General Labour Federation of Belgium.
The Workers' Party of Belgium (French: Parti du travail de Belgique, pronounced [paʁti dy tʁavaj də bɛlʒik], PTB; Dutch: Partij van de Arbeid van België, pronounced [pɑrˈtɛi vɑn də ˈʔɑrbɛit vɑm ˈbɛlɣijə], PVDA; lit. ' Labour Party of Belgium ') is a Marxist [5] and socialist [9] political party in Belgium.
While free movement of workers was central to the first European Economic Community agreement, the development of European labour law has been a gradual process. Originally, the Ohlin Report of 1956 recommended that labour standards did not need to be harmonised, although a general principle of anti-discrimination between men and women was included in the early Treaties.
The original use of the term right to work was coined by French socialist leader Louis Blanc before 1848. [4] According to the American Enterprise Institute, the modern usage of the term right to work was coined by Dallas Morning News editorial writer William Ruggles in 1941.
« L'inspection du travail en France en 1998. les chiffres clés » de Collectif, La Documentation Française, 2000 « L'Inspection du travail », Bureau international du travail, 2000; Gérard Lyon-Caen et Jacques Pellissier, Droit du travail, Dalloz, 1996; Marie-Thérèse Join-Lambert, Politiques sociales, Presses de Sciences-Po et Dalloz, 1997
The term droit is also used in various legal connexions (i.e., French law), such as the droit of angary, the droit d'achat (right of pre-emption) in the case of contraband, the feudal droit de bris (see wreck), the droit de regale or ancient royal privilege of claiming the revenues and patronage of a vacant bishopric, and the feudal droites of ...