Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 1996, publiée 85ème session CIT (1997)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report.

With reference to the comments it has been making for many years on the need to adopt measures to ensure the application of Article 2 of the Convention, the Committee notes the Government's statement that in practice some establishments grant workers' representatives full-time detachment to carry out trade union activities because certain provisions of collective agreements provide for this right of full-time detachment. The Committee notes that no legislative provisions or regulations appear to have been adopted to give effect to Article 2. The Committee must therefore ask the Government once again to take steps at the earliest possible date to enable workers' representatives to carry out their functions promptly and efficiently, in particular through laws or regulations or collective agreements (in the light of the examples set out in the Workers' Representatives Recommendation, 1971 (No. 143) such as: granting them time off to carry out their functions and attend meetings, training courses, seminars, conferences and congresses; and giving them access to all workplaces and to the management, and facilities to collect trade union dues and display notices). It asks the Government to indicate in its next report the measures taken in this respect, including the measures taken within the framework of the draft Labour Code, the drafting of which began in 1982, which it trusts will be adopted by that time. Furthermore, the Committee requests the Government to provide, along with its next report, copies of collective agreements containing provisions which grant facilities to workers' representatives in order to carry out trade union activities.