Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

The Committee notes with regret that for the fourth year in succession, the Government's report has not been received. It recalls that its previous comments concerned the following:

Article 3 of the Convention. The Committee had asked the Government to envisage amending or repealing section 374(a) to (c) of the Penal Code and section 82 of Ordinance No. 159 of 1964 which prohibit the right to strike by public employees under threat of imprisonment. The Committee had noted from the Government's latest report that the Department of Labour was undertaking a complete revision of existing labour legislation and that it was considering requesting ILO technical assistance in this regard. The Committee hopes that the necessary measures will be taken in the near future to bring the abovementioned provisions of the legislation into conformity with the principle of freedom of association and requests the Government to indicate, in its next report, the progress made in this regard.