Seguimiento dado a las recomendaciones del Comité y del Consejo de Administración - Informe núm. 329, Noviembre 2002

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

1. 73. The Committee last examined this case at its March 2002 meeting, on which occasion it had called upon the parties to come promptly to an agreement on all the modalities concerning the granting and use of time-off facilities to teachers’ unions [see 327th Report, paras. 81-83].
2. 74. In a communication dated 22 August 2002, the Government indicates that at a meeting held on 29 July 2002, under the chairmanship of the Ministry of Civil Service Affairs and Administrative Reforms, the Ministry of Education and Scientific Research and the Government Teachers’ Union agreed to the granting of time-off facilities to office bearers of the Union as follows: (i) president, secretary and treasurer – on a “as and when required basis”; (b) other committee members – one day per week. This agreement was reached on the understanding that the Government Teachers’ Union will ensure that its members do not abuse the facilities granted.
3. 75. The Committee takes note of this information with satisfaction.