Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Namibia (Ratification: 1995)

Article 6 of the Convention. Rights of prison staff. The Committee had  previously noted that section 2(2)(d) of the Labour Act excludes members of the prison service from the Labour Act’s provisions, unless the Prisons Service Act provides otherwise, and had also noted that the Prisons Service Act does not provide for the extension of the new Labour Act’s guarantees to the prison service. The Committee notes that the Government indicates in its report that it is in the process of consulting Cabinet with the hope that permission will be granted to proceed with the legislative amendments that are required. In these circumstances, the Committee once again expresses the hope that the necessary legislative amendments to guarantee, to the prisons services, the rights provided under the Convention will be adopted in the near future and once again requests the Government to indicate, in its next report, any developments in this regard.

International Trade Union Confederation comments. The Committee notes the comments of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in a communication dated 24 August 2010 concerning difficulties in the application of the Convention in the export processing zones. The Committee requests the Government to provide its observations thereon.

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