Abstract

The labour law operators welcomed as extremely interesting the changes to the discipline of conciliation and arbitration introduced by the 1998 reform. The first data on compulsory conciliation, however, have determined the widespread feeling of a substantial failure of the reform. The author analyses the instrument of conciliation and arbitration in the experience of the private and public sectors. According to the author there still exists room for conciliation and arbitration; the problems lay rather on the shortcomings of structures under a human resources, organisational and economic point of view.