Like time, collective bargaining waits for no-one! As the effects of COVID-19 threaten to reverberate across the economy and Treasury forecast double-digit unemployment levels beyond the end of the year, it is easy to forget that many collective agreements are set to expire and will be up for renegotiation this year. Some, in fact, reached their expiry during the recent lockdown and others are set to expire while the country is under Alert Level 2 and social gatherings are limited to 10 people and to 2-hours’ duration. This obviously makes it difficult, if not impossible, for collective bargaining, as normally practiced, to take place.

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