Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1990, publiée 77ème session CIT (1990)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

With reference to its previous direct requests concerning the insufficiency of the current legislative provisions ensuring protection against acts of anti-union discrimination for workers' representatives (Article 1 of the Convention), the Committee notes that the Government's report makes no reference to other ways of ensuring such protection or to the revision of the Labour Code which was undertaken with ILO assistance in 1987-88.

Although the Government maintains that there is no difficulty in applying the Convention and that no step, such as dismissal or transfer, has ever been taken against workers' representatives by employers or others, the Committee would recall that Article 1 of the Convention requires that effective protection be provided to workers' representatives and that Article 6 permits a certain flexibility as regards the manner in which such protection may be assured by a ratifying State. In the Committee's opinion neither the legislation as it stands nor any other measure has been brought to its attention to show that the provisions of Article 1 are applied.

It consequently requests the Government to take steps to fulfil its obligations under this Convention and to indicate in its next report the measures it has taken in this direction.