Case No 2272 (Costa Rica) - Complaint date: 01-MAY-03

The National Association of Insurance Brokers (ANDAS) and the National Association of Public and Private Employees (ANEP)

Allegations

The complainant organizations allege that the National Insurance Institute (INS) was unilaterally reorganized in August 2000, terminating the employment contracts with only partial payment of compensation, of 239 insurance brokers (including members of the ANDAS executive committee), whose relationship with the employers became a commercial one without social guarantees, in a fraudulent evasion of applicable law and in violation of the Constitution and the legislation; the dismissal of two trade union officials of the Insurance Brokers’ Association (AGEINS) who refused to accept the change in the articles of association; a judicial order for the arrest and imprisonment for alleged defamation following statements by a trade union official of AGEINS against the “underhand privatization”. Finally, the complainant organizations allege the disavowal of the existence of the collective agreement and the trade union organization ANDAS, with the withdrawal of the use of trade union facilities.

Case No 2272 (Costa Rica) - Complaint date: 01-MAY-03

The National Association of Insurance Brokers (ANDAS) and the National Association of Public and Private Employees (ANEP)

Allegations

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