Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Czechia (Ratification: 1993)

The Committee notes the information provided in the Government’s report. The Committee further notes the comments of the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (CMKOS) and the Government’s reply thereto.

The Committee recalls that its previous comments concerned:

-  the need to amend the Act on Associations so as to ensure that all workers without distinction, whether nationals or foreigners working in the territory, enjoy the right to form and join organizations of their own choosing; and

-  the need to amend section 17 of the Act on Collective Bargaining so as to ensure that balloting for industrial action only takes account of the votes cast and that the required quorum and majority are fixed at a reasonable level.

The Committee notes from the Government’s latest report that the draft Act on association in confederations, societies and other associations has been dropped from inter-departmental discussions and that, at present, the Ministry of Interior is only preparing a bill to amend the Act on association of citizens (No. 83/1990). It further notes the Government’s indication that the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has taken the Committee’s comments concerning section 17 of the Act on Collective Bargaining into account with a view to preparing a solution. The Committee notes with interest the Government’s indication in this regard that a quorum should be regulated in such a way that a union can declare a strike if it has the support of more than half of the voting employees concerned, on the condition that at least half of the concerned employees vote. It further notes with interest the Government’s indication that the provision on the submission of a list of strikers should be repealed. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the progress made in this regard in its next report.