Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - REPORT_NO320, March 2000

Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body

1. 32. During its last examination of this case at its meeting in November 1998, the Committee once again requested the Government to keep it informed of the progress made in amending Order No. 158 of 28 March 1995 so as to ensure that strikes may only be prohibited in essential services in the strict sense of the term, as well as the measures taken to ensure the reinstatement in their jobs of all workers dismissed in connection with the strikes in Minsk and Gomyel in August 1995 (see 311th Report, paras. 18-20).
2. 33. In a communication dated 13 January 2000, the Government indicates that the Labour Code of the Republic of Belarus came into force on 1 January 2000 and that it deals with several matters, including social partnership, the representation of workers' interests and strikes. The Government also states that, in accordance with Presidential Decree No. 2 of 26 January 1999, 38 national trade unions and two trade union associations were re-registered, including the Free Trade Union of Belarus and the Congress of Democratic Trade Unions of Belarus.
3. 34. The Committee takes due note of this information and would draw the attention of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations to the legislative aspects of this case within the framework of its examination of the application of Convention No. 87. The Committee must, however, once again request the Government, as no information was provided in this respect, to keep it informed of the measures taken to reinstate the workers dismissed in connection with the Minsk and Gomyel in August 1995.