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The field of collective labor law in West Germany covers 2 main areas. The first is collective bargaining, including conciliation, strike, and lock-out. The 2nd concerns the specific German pay of institutionalized bargaining on plant and on enterprise level. On the field of collective labor law as a whole, current legislation is more in favor of indirect sorts of regulation rather than direct prohibitions or mandatory regulation as takes place in the UK. While there have been many deregulatory measures in West Germany concerning labor and social security law, the law of strike has remained, with one important exception, unchanged in the last decade, at least by the legislator. One key measure in legislation was the amendment to the Work Promotion Act. As a rule, employees affected by a temporary shut-down whatever the reason are paid either wages or wage substitutes from the unemployment insurance fund. In cases of labor disputes, the unemployment insurance funds must adopt a neutral stance and must not act to affect the bargaining balance by making financial payments.