Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

With reference to its previous comments on the need for measures appropriate to national conditions to promote and encourage the full development and utilization of machinery for voluntary collective bargaining between employers' and workers' organizations so as to regulate conditions of employment, and in particular the need to enact a Decree to implement Legislative Decree No. 62/87 of 30 June 1987 respecting collective bargaining, the Committee notes the Government's statement that the implementing Decree has still not been enacted but that a technical committee responsible for revising the legislation on industrial relations would publish a Bill in December 1993.

The Committee draws the Government's attention to the importance it attaches to promoting and utilizing machinery for the voluntary collective negotiation of conditions of employment, in accordance with the requirements of Article 4 of the Convention. In view of the Government's assurances to the Committee on Freedom of Association in Case No. 1717, that democracy is in the process of being established (see 291st Report, paragraph 371, approved by the Governing Body at its 258th Session November 1993), the Committee asks the Government in its next report to provide information on any measures that have been taken to guarantee the right of workers to negotiate freely their conditions of employment with their employers. It also asks the Government to provide copies of any national, regional or local collective agreements that may exist.