since january the county ldcs are mandatory pretrial bodies except until july in cases of termination of employment contract suspension from work nonpecuniary damages as well as collective labour disputes which were the unique prerogative of courts the new labour code expands the role of the ldcs by making them the mandatory pretrial body in all cases of labour dispute up to now ldcs have managed to solve all the cases with no case being brought forward to court this may nevertheless change with the extension of the scope of ldcs notably to termination of employment contract and collective labour dispute cases are rare and mostly relate to contract termination representing less than one per of the total number of terminations since july the sli is also in charge of collecting new data such as the number of employees representatives the number of temporary labour contracts and the number of termination of labour contracts as well as grounds for it the county divisions of the sli will also have to assess reasons for firing or changing work conditions in a less favourable way for an employees representative