Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Benin (Ratification: 1968)

The Committee requests the Government to supply information on the practical effect given to the Convention and, in particular, to indicate the measures taken, in accordance with Article 4 of the Convention, to encourage and promote the full development and utilisation of machinery for the voluntary negotiation of collective agreements between employers and workers. In this connection, it requests the Government to indicate the number of collective agreements concluded, the number of workers covered by the collective agreements and the sectors covered.

As regards Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention which are applied through Article 7 of the Labour Code, the Committee asks the Government to indicate whether or not the legislation provides for penal sanctions, in addition to the payment of damages, for violations of that provision.