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Your collective agreement's days are numbered
Clauses on working hours and rest that are incompatible with the new rule will be void in two months.
Cancel the labor relations team's vacation plans: there will be no Disney trip in January, just a lot of work.
Your current collective agreement's days are numbered. Read this passage carefully: all clauses on working hours and rest that are incompatible with the new rule will be void in just two months. Who is relaxed about this? The union, since the company neither opened talks early nor built a relationship with its leaders.
Many managers will learn the hard way how difficult this negotiation is: when shift schedules collapse. Preserving margins, team productivity and balanced people management now depends not on loopholes in the law, but on how quickly and strategically the company sits down with the union to design, for example, new compensation rules.
Originally published in Portuguese on Diego Amâncio Dias's LinkedIn.