This report aims to describe and analyse recent developments in industrial relations in the commerce sector in Hungary in the last three years. An overview report is available.
The rise of a pluralistic railway trade union movement is connected to the political changes that took place in eastern Europe in the early 1990s. Before 1990, there was only one railway trade union, the Trade Union of Hungarian Railway Workers (VSZ [1]). In the transitional period after 1990, two
A new Labour Code has been introduced by Hungary’s government which aims to align the regulation of collective rights with that of contractual individual law enshrined in the country’s Civil Code. The Labour Code, in principle, allows collective agreements, agreements with works councils in
Tripartite cooperation at national level has been a tradition since 1988 in Hungary although its form has changed several times. The current format was adopted in 2002 and called the National Interest Reconciliation Council (OÉT [1]). The OÉT is the national forum for tripartite cooperation between
The Hungarian Labour Code was introduced on 1 June 1992. Since then it has had about 50 amendments. However, there have been no fundamental, structural changes to mirror the economic, political and social reforms of the last decades.
The number of companies in Hungary going into liquidation has increased dramatically since the beginning of the global financial and economic crisis. The first quarter of 2009 also saw an alarming new trend: companies in financial difficulties going into liquidation as quickly as possible to get rid