Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

The Committee notes the Government’s report.

The Committee recalls that it commented previously on the need for workers’ representatives to be afforded protection against anti-trade union discrimination, as well as facilities to allow them to carry out their duties quickly and efficiently.

The Committee notes with satisfaction that Act No. 35 on the organization of trade unions, which was adopted and promulgated on 31 August 2002, prohibits any act of anti-union discrimination against workers’ representatives and that dissuasive sanctions are provided under the Labour Code. It also notes that sections 38 and 39 of the Act provide for trade union leave.

The Committee requests the Government to take additional steps in order to ensure that, under the terms of the legislation or through collective agreements, the union leaders and delegates in question benefit from other facilities to enable them to carry out their functions (such as the right to collect trade union dues on the premises of the undertaking, the distribution of trade union documents among the workers of the undertaking, etc.).