Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 338, November 2005

Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body

1. 26. The Committee examined this case at its March 2005 meeting and on that occasion made the following recommendations [see 336th Report, para. 232]:
   • While regretting the significant delay in initiating collective negotiations, the Committee takes due note of the Government’s statement that the collective negotiations requested by the UPCN have now begun. The Committee expects that the negotiations will lead to the resolution of the issues at hand in the very near future.
   • As to the cases referred to by the UPCN with regard to which the State had supposedly taken unilateral decisions, which should have been the object of collective bargaining, the Committee trusts that the Government and the UPCN will be able to find a solution to these problems, within the framework of the Standing Committee for Labour Relations envisaged in article 67 of collective labour agreement No. 66/99 of 30 March 2004.
   • With regard to the allegation related to the possible unilateral decision by the State to introduce a wage increase of 150 pesos for public sector workers earning less than 1,000 pesos, the Committee expects that any decision relative to wage changes in the public sector will be subject to prior consultation with the workers’ organizations concerned.
2. 27. In its communication of 10 August 2005, the Government refers to the Committee’s recommendation in which it stated that it trusted that wage increases in the public sector will be subject to prior consultation with the workers’ organizations concerned and had attached Act No. 875 of 20 July 2005, which approves the Act of Agreement between representatives of the State and the trade union organizations UPCN and ATE, under which, in the framework of equality of collective bargaining in the public sector, a decision was reached jointly on wage increases for workers in the public administration.
3. 28. The Committee notes this information with interest.