SECTION 52

(1) A collective agreement is an agreement intented to regulate labour relations between employers and workers either of an enterprise or group of enterprises or of one or more branches of activity. This agreement shall be concluded between : • - The representatives of one or more trade unions or a federation of trade unions on the one hand ; and • - The representatives of one or more employers' associations or any other group of employers or one or more employers acting individually on the other hand. (2) A collective agreement may contain more favourable to workers than those of the law and regulations in force. It shall not impair provisions relating to matters of public policy. (3) Each collective agreement shall define its scope of application which may be national, interdivisional or local. (4) The text of every collective agreement shall be published free of charge in the Official Gazette by the minister in-charge of employment as soon as he has been notified that it has been deposited at the registry of the competent court. (5) Before such publication, the minister in charge of employment may invite the contracting parties to amend or delete any provisions of the said text which may be repugnant to existing laws and regulations.