Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2009, publiée 99ème session CIT (2010)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report does not reply to the comments made in 2006, 2008 and 2009 by the International National Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), according to which the right to collective bargaining is confined to a single agreement that has to be negotiated at the national level and needs to obtain the approval of Government representatives, as well as of trade unions and employers. The ITUC further indicate that workers in export processing zones do not benefit from the same protection against anti-union discrimination as other workers. The Committee requests the Government to take all the necessary measures to give full effect to the Convention, and to submit these points to tripartite discussion. The Committee requests the Government to provide information in this respect as well as on the exercise of collective bargaining in practice (the number of workers and sectors covered, including the public service, and promotional measures undertaken by the authorities).

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