Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Eritrea (Ratification: 2000)

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:

Repetition

The Committee requests the Government to provide its observations in reply to the comments submitted by the International Trade Union Confederation in 2012.

Article 2 of the Convention. Right of workers and employers, without distinction whatsoever, to establish and join organizations. In its previous comments, the Committee noted the information that the process to enact the Civil Servants’ Code is in its final stage and that public servants will have the right to organize under section 58(1) of the draft Code. The Committee hopes that the Civil Servants’ Code will be adopted shortly so that all public servants have the right to organize, in accordance with the Convention, and requests the Government to provide a copy of the Code as soon as it has been adopted.

Article 3. The right of organizations to organize their activities and to formulate their programmes. In its previous comments, the Committee requested the Government to amend section 116(3) of the Labour Proclamation pursuant to which the agreement of more than half of the employees of an undertaking is necessary to hold a strike. Recalling that, when legislative provisions require a vote by workers before a strike can be held, the Government should ensure that only the votes cast are counted, and that the required quorum and majority are fixed at a reasonable level. The Committee requests the Government to take the necessary measures to amend the legislation and to indicate any progress made in its next report.