Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 82nd ILC session (1995)

Rural Workers' Organisations Convention, 1975 (No. 141) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1991)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its first report on the Convention.

The Committee considers that section 14(c) of the Labour Code (which excludes from its scope agricultural enterprises permanently employing no more than five workers) should be repealed, particularly since Executive Decree No. 2 of 29 January 1952 states that the Labour Code is applicable to the above enterprises.

The Commission notes with interest that sections 91 and 93 of the Bill concerning the Statutory Regime of Public and Civil Service Employees no longer refer to a ban on strikes in the following services: the sowing, cultivation or harvesting of agricultural or forest products and stock-raising when they would deteriorate as a result of these operations not being carried out immediately (as provided in section 369(b) of the Labour Code).

The Committee requests the Government to supply information on the number of trade union organizations which have been established in plantations, and the approximate number of their members.

The Committee would be grateful to receive information on the activities of rural workers' organizations designed to enable them to participate in economic and social development and in the benefits resulting therefrom, as well as on any distinctions, exclusions or preferences related to the recognized role of existing organizations of rural workers in economic and social development.

The Committee hopes that the Government will supply the requested information in its next report, and that it will keep it informed of the progress made in adopting the Bill concerning the Statutory Regime of Public and Civil Service Employees (modifying section 369(b) of the Labour Code) as well as any action taken to expressely repeal section 14(c) of the Labour Code. The Committee requests it to send copies of the above texts when they have been adopted.