Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2003, published 92nd ILC session (2004)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Croatia (Ratification: 1991)

The Committee takes note of the Government’s report.

Article 4 of the Convention. With regard to its previous comments concerning the Supreme Court decision of 7 December 1995, which acknowledged that legislation may modify the substance of a collective agreement concluded for the whole of the public sector, the Committee takes due note of the Government’s statement that it has adopted a new approach for the amendment of collective agreements, based on conciliation and an amicable settlement.

Comments of the Public Services International (PSI) on a possible amendment of the Labour Act detrimental to trade union rights. The Committee notes that the PSI has not forwarded any further comments on the Government’s response to its previous comments as requested by the Committee. The Committee notes from the Government’s previous and current report that certain legislative amendments concerning new coefficients for the calculation of salaries necessitated the renegotiation of collective agreements in the public sector and that the new collective agreement for public servants and officials was signed in December 2001.