Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - REPORT_NO395, June 2021

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

1. 17. The Committee last examined this case at its October 2016 meeting and, on that occasion, requested the Government to provide information on the professional and trade union situations of certain officials of the National Autonomous Union of Public Administration Personnel (SNAPAP), specifically Mr Mourad Tchikou (Vice-President of the National Union of Civil Protection – SNAPAP) and Mr Sadou Saddek (General Secretary of the trade union section of SNAPAP in Bejaïa prefecture). Furthermore, the Committee requested the Government to inform it of the outcome of the appeal lodged in August 2012 by Mr Tchikou’s employer in respect of the decision to lift the precautionary measure of suspension taken against him [see 380th Report, October 2016, para. 17].
2. 18. In its communication dated 25 June 2019, the Government states that it had been informed in January 2017 that Mr Sadou Saddek had entered into retirement in 2013, at his own request. With regard to the situation of Mr Mourad Tchikou, the Government states that the parties are still awaiting the Supreme Court’s decision on the lifting of the suspension. The Government points out that Mr Tchikou’s application to cancel the suspension order issued against him by the employer has been rejected twice, in June 2014 by the Algiers Administrative Court and in July 2017 by the Council of State. Recalling the principle that justice delayed is justice denied, the Committee trusts that the Supreme Court will hand down a decision quickly and expects the Government to inform it without delay of the follow-up action that will be taken in order to close the case.