Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2001, published 90th ILC session (2002)

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

The Committee notes the Government’s report.

Article 1 of the Convention (all those engaged in agriculture have the same rights of association and combination as industrial workers). The Committee recalls that its previous comments concerned the exclusion of agricultural workers from the scope of the Labour Code of 1967 (section 186). The Committee had recalled in this regard that, under the terms of Article 1 of the Convention, the Government must secure to all those engaged in agriculture the same rights of association and combination as to industrial workers.

The Committee notes the Government’s indications according to which the new law amending the Labour Code has been adopted by the Transitional National Assembly in 2000, and it is currently before the Supreme Court in order to verify its constitutionality, which is a necessary step before its promulgation. The Government indicates that under the terms of section 2 of the new law, the exclusion of agricultural workers from the scope of the Labour Code has been dropped. The Committee takes note of this information with interest and asks the Government to send it a copy of the new law amending the Labour Code as soon as it is promulgated, as well as any statistics concerning agricultural organizations which may be formed once the new Code comes into force.