Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1997, published 86th ILC session (1998)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Liberia (Ratification: 1962)

The Committee notes with regret that for the seventh year in succession the Government has been unable to send a report. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

The Committee notes that no measures have been taken to eliminate the discrepancies between the national legislation and the Convention. In the circumstances, the Committee can only recall its comments of the last few years which concern the following points: 1. Article 1 of the Convention. The provisions of the national legislation are insufficient to guarantee workers adequate protection, accompanied by sufficiently effective and dissuasive sanctions, at the time of recruitment and during the employment relationship. 2. Article 2. The present provisions are not sufficient to ensure adequate protection of workers' organizations, accompanied by sufficiently effective and dissuasive sanctions, against acts of interference by employers and their organizations. 3. Articles 4 and 6. The possibility of collective bargaining is not offered to employees of state enterprises and other authorities since these categories are excluded from the scope of the Labour Code, whereas under Article 6 of the Convention, only public servants engaged in the administration of the State are not covered by the Convention.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.