Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143) - Burkina Faso (Ratification: 1977)

Article 10 of the Convention. Equality of treatment with respect to trade union rights. The Committee recalls its previous comments in which it requested the Government to amend section 159 of the Labour Code which provided that members responsible for the management and administration of a trade union must be nationals of Burkina Faso or of a state with which establishment agreements have been concluded requiring reciprocity of trade union rights. The Committee notes with interest that section 264 of the new Labour Code, 2004, now allows foreigners with five years of residence to become trade union officials.

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.