Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

With reference to its previous direct request concerning the scope of sections 208 and 209 of the Labour Code, which provide that, unless it is opposed within the two days following its notification, an arbitration award given by an arbitration council becomes enforceable, the Committee takes note of the Government's statement that if an opposition is filed within the prescribed time limit, the case is referred by the minister responsible for labour to another arbitrator or arbitration council after verification of the merits of the opposition. According to the Government, in any event, no decision becomes enforceable at the request of one of the parties.

The Committee asks the Government to indicate in its next report the number and nature of collective labour disputes that have been solved by enforceable arbitration award, and the cases where the minister responsible for labour has considered that the opposition to an arbitration award was not justified and to indicate the practical consequences of such a decision for the parties to the dispute.