Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

With reference to its previous comments concerning the need to encourage and promote collective bargaining in the public sector, the Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report according to which the draft Civil Service Code, which was refiled as Senate Bill No. 15111 on 10 March 1999, is now pending before the Senate's Civil Service and Finance Committees.

Recalling the importance of the development of collective bargaining in the public sector, the Committee firmly hopes that the said legislation will grant to public sector employees not engaged in the administration of the State the right to negotiate their terms and conditions of employment in accordance with Articles 4 and 6 of the Convention. It requests the Government to provide a copy of the draft Civil Service Code as soon as it is adopted.