Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Right of Association (Agriculture) Convention, 1921 (No. 11) - Rwanda (Ratification: 1962)

The Committee takes note of the information in the Government's report, especially the Bill revising the Act of 28 February 1967 issuing the Labour Code.

The Committee has commented since 1969 on section 186 of the Labour Code, which excludes agricultural workers from the scope of the Code. The Committee recalls that under Article 1 of the Convention the Government must secure for all those engaged in agriculture the same rights of association and combination as to industrial workers.

The Committee requests the Government to transmit in its next report detailed information regarding the progress of the revision of the Labour Code which includes specifically agricultural workers within its scope. It firmly hopes that the Government will take all necessary measures at an early date to make its legislation compatible with the Convention, by ensuring the same rights of association and combination for agricultural workers as for industrial workers.

[The Government is asked to report in detail in 2000.]