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

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Belarus (Ratification: 1956)

Article 3 of the Convention. The Committee recalls that it had requested the Government to indicate the measures taken to ensure that National Bank employees may have recourse to industrial action without penalty. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that pursuant to section 22 of the Law on Civil Service, civil servants are prohibited from exercising the right to strike. Pursuant to section 7 of the Banking Code, the National Bank is a state body regulating credit relations responsible for the payment system. Therefore, employees of the National Bank responsible for the execution of the Bank’s responsibility are civil servants and do not enjoy the right to strike; however, employees providing technical services are not civil servants and therefore are not restricted in their right to strike. The Committee recalls that the right to strike may be restricted or prohibited only for public servants exercising authority in the name of the State. It therefore requests the Government to clarify the distinction it makes in its report between those employees who enjoy the right to strike and those employees who do not.

[The Government is asked to supply full particulars to the Conference at its 103rd Session and to reply in detail to the present comments in 2014.]