Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 83rd ILC session (1996)

Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971 (No. 135) - Rwanda (Ratification: 1988)

While noting the Government's report, the Committee regrets that it does not provide any new information and the Committee is therefore bound to reiterate the comments that it has been making for a number of years on the following issue:

Article 4 of the Convention. The Committee recalls that by virtue of section 160 of the Labour Code, the Minister of Labour shall, by an order made on the advice of the Labour Advisory Board, prescribe, inter alia, the minimum number of workers above which, and the category of establishments in which, the election of staff representatives shall be compulsory; the number of representatives and their distribution among the various occupations; the procedure of elections; the conditions to be fulfilled by electors and candidates for election. Regretting that the Government confines itself to indicating in its report that a study concerning such an order is still being carried out, the Committee expresses the firm hope that the Government will be able to supply information on the results of this study in its next report and that it will forward the text of any order which is adopted under section 160 of the Labour Code.