Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1996, published 85th ILC session (1997)

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 matter raised in its previous direct request:

With reference to its previous comments concerning section 342 of the Labour Code respecting the right to strike in essential services, the Committee notes that the Government states once again in its report that the draft regulations respecting strikes affecting these services will be examined in the very near future and that it will take into account the concerns expressed by the Committee. The Committee hopes that the concept of essential services in which strikes can be limited, or even prohibited, will be confined to services the interruption of which would be likely to endanger the life, personal safety or health of the whole or part of the population. The Committee requests the Government to provide it with a copy of the text which is being prepared so that it can examine its scope.