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

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Sao Tome and Principe (Ratification: 1992)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Article 4. The Committee had noted that a draft law on the rules governing collective bargaining, the provisions of which, in general terms, were consistent with the Convention, was before the Assembly of the Republic. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that the draft law in question is still before the National Assembly. The Committee asks the Government to inform it of any development in the processing of this draft law and to provide further information on the conciliation procedure mentioned therein, for example, on its duration and the possibility of taking collective action once the procedure has been completed (section 14 of the draft law).

The Committee had also noted the Government’s indication in a previous report that civil servants are able to bargain collectively with regard to their conditions of work. The Committee notes that Law No. 5/97 (concerning public servants) recognizes the right of public servants to organize and engage in strikes.