Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) - Guinea-Bissau (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the following matters raised in its previous direct request:

1. In its previous comments, the Committee requested the Government to supply the texts that are in force relating to the prison system.

The Committee noted the indications supplied by the Government to the effect that the prison system is organised on the basis of political orientations formulated by the Government and that the Ministry of Justice is working on the formulation of a system of prison labour that is in conformity with the Convention.

The Committee again expresses the hope that the Government will be able to transmit in the near future the new provisions adopted respecting prison labour.

2. In its previous comments, the Committee requested the Government to supply information concerning any restrictions placed on the freedom of workers to terminate their employment.

The Committee noted previously the information supplied by the Government on employees in the public service who, according to the Government's statement are able to resign without any restrictions. As regards workers in the private sector, the Government referred to Legislative Order No. 1874.

The Committee noted that Legislative Order No. 1874 was repealed by Act No. 2/86 (General Labour Act), section 139 of which provides for the termination of the employment relationship at the worker's initiative following two months' notice.

With reference to employees in the public service, the Committee noted that they are excluded from the scope of the General Labour Act (section 1(3)); the Committee again requests the Government to transmit the texts that are applicable to employees in the public service, particularly as regards the conditions for the termination of the employment relationship and restrictions on their freedom to terminate their employment.