Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 1999, publiée 88ème session CIT (2000)

The Committee notes the Government's report, which includes observations made by the United Confederation of Honduran Workers (CUTH).

The Committee notes that the above observations refer in a general manner to the alleged use of "methods of forced labour as measures of discipline, punishments for persons participating in strikes, discrimination on grounds of race, sex and religion ...". The CUTH neither indicates laws or regulations providing for such use of forced labour, nor specific instances in which forced labour is alleged to have been imposed in practice. In its comments on these allegations in its report, the Government refers to various provisions of the national legislation which have a bearing on the observance of the Convention. In the absence of more detailed and concrete allegations by the CUTH, the Committee notes the Government's reply in its report.