Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Philippines (Ratification: 1953)

The Committee notes with regret that, for the second consecutive time, the Government’s report does not reply to the matters raised in its previous direct request. In these conditions, the Committee requests the Government to:

–         indicate in its next report the measures taken to ensure that all workers in the Philippines, including managerial employees, prison staff and firefighters, enjoy the right to organize guaranteed under the Convention; and

–         clarify the current status of the sample contract for various skills, posted on the web site of the Department of Labour and Employment with respect to the Philippines Overseas Employment Administration, as well as any measures taken or envisaged to delete trade union activities from the list of grounds for termination. It further requests the Government to indicate the concrete circumstances under which this sample contract is used and provide an estimate of the numbers of workers governed by it.