Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

In its previous observation, the Committee referred to the need for workers’ representatives to be afforded facilities to allow them to carry out their duties quickly and efficiently, and requested 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.) The Committee notes that the Government indicates in its report that it shall endeavour to take the recommended measures. In this respect, the Committee requests the Government to communicate in is next report any information related to facilities granted to workers’ representatives to allow them to carry out their duties.