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

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Netherlands (Ratification: 1993)

The Committee notes that the Government's report contains no reply to previous comments. It hopes that the next report will include full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

... the Committee notes from the Government's report that a draft legislation has been presented to the Parliament, to the effect of amending article 670, paragraph 5, of the Civil Code and providing for a protection against dismissal on the grounds of trade union membership or activities. The Committee hopes that the present draft will provide sanctions, sufficiently dissuasive, so as to ensure the full application of Article 1 of the Convention (please refer to paragraphs 223 and 224 of the General Survey on freedom of association and collective bargaining, 1994). It asks the Government to keep it informed on the matter.

The Committee also recalls that it had asked the Government to indicate the manner in which workers' organizations are protected (in particular through dissuasive sanctions) against acts of interference by employers' organizations and vice versa, in accordance with Article 2 of the Convention. Given that the Government only refers to interference in the framework of collective bargaining, the Committee asks the Government to give more details on this issue.