Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Right of Association (Agriculture) Convention, 1921 (No. 11) - Montenegro (Ratification: 2006)

Article 1 of the Convention. The Committee notes the Government’s first report. The Committee further notes that article 53 of the Constitution of Montenegro guarantees the right of employers and employees to establish and join organizations of their own choosing without prior authorization and that the Labour Law of 2008 (OG No. 49/08) applies to all employees in the country, unless otherwise specified by a special law (section 2 of the Labour Law). The Committee noted under Convention No. 87 that the Government indicated that by virtue of these provisions, trade union rights are granted to agricultural workers and that section 165 of the Labour Law addresses self-employed workers. However, noting that section 165 of the Labour Law seems to cover only self employed workers in the area of culture, the Committee requests the Government to indicate the legal provisions that grant trade union rights to self employed workers in the agricultural sector.