Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971 (No. 135) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee asks the Government to supply information on the facilities provided for in Article 2 of the Convention which are afforded in practice to workers' representatives, either by collective agreement or in any other form, such as the following which are set out in Recommendation No. 143: facilities to enable them to carry out their functions promptly and efficiently; the necessary time-off from work, without loss of pay, for carrying out their representation functions in the undertaking; access to the management of the undertaking; the right to attend meetings; the authorization to collect union dues regularly on the premises of the undertaking; the posting of trade union notices; such material facilities and information as may be necessary for the exercise of their functions.