arbitration of essential services

In the case of strike in activity sectors that are intended to the meeting of imperative social needs essential services must be defined to meet those needs.

Whenever the essential services and the means necessary to ensure them were not previously agreed between the parties or regulated by a collective labour regulation instrument, and in the case of impossibility of agreement between the parties until the end of the 3rd day subsequent to the prior notice of strike, it is incumbent upon an arbitral college to set the essential services and provide the necessary means to ensure them.