Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2007, publiée 97ème session CIT (2008)

The Committee notes the Government’s report and its reply to the comments made by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU, now ITUC – the International Trade Union Confederation) in 2006. The Committee also notes the comments of the ITUC dated 28 August 2007, on issues already under examination by the Committee.

The Committee recalls that its previous comments concerned the need to amend section 17 of the Act on collective bargaining so as to ensure that balloting for industrial action only takes account of the votes cast and that the required quorum and majority are fixed at a reasonable level.

The Committee notes with interest from the report of the Government that section 17 of the Act on collective bargaining, which deals with the right to strike, has recently been amended so as to lift the obligation to submit the names of the employees who will participate in the strike and ensure that balloting for industrial action only takes account of the votes cast, subject to a quorum requirement of 50 per cent of employees concerned by the agreement.

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.