Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1996, published 85th ILC session (1997)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - France (Ratification: 1951)

The Committee notes the comments made by the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT) concerning Article 11 of the Convention to the effect that the law and jurisprudence do not take all the measures that are necessary to ensure that workers and employers may freely exercise the right to organize, and particularly that trade union organizations encounter significant difficulties in respect of their establishment and activities in small and medium-sized enterprises. The Committee requests the Government to transmit the comments that it deems appropriate in this respect.