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

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Eswatini (Ratification: 1978)

Article 3 of the Convention. The Committee recalls that, for a number of years, it had reminded the Government that a general prohibition on sympathy strikes could lead to abuse and requested it to indicate whether, in practice, workers may engage in sympathy strikes without incurring sanctions. The Committee previously noted from the Government’s report that the workers’ side had not yet submitted any proposal to amend the Industrial Relations Act (IRA). Noting from the Government’s report that the Labour Advisory Board agreed in July 2013 to set up a subcommittee to review the whole Act and come up with proposals of amendments, the Committee hopes that this issue will be taken into account in the process and requests the Government to provide information on any development in this regard.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2014.]