Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971 (No. 135) - Iraq (Ratification: 1972)

Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention. Protection of workers’ representatives and facilities. In its previous comments, the Committee had hoped that the new Labour Code would be adopted in the very near future and that it would be in conformity with the provisions of the Convention, including those concerning the protection of workers’ representatives (whether trade union or elected representatives) against dismissals and other prejudicial acts and the facilities afforded to them to enable them to carry out their functions. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that sections 135–142 (Chapter 16) of the new draft Labour Code, which provide for collective bargaining and agreements, were taken out of the Code to become an independent law on trade union organization, providing sufficient protection to trade unions; and that this law has been examined in a first reading in the Majlis Al Nouwab. The Committee hopes that the Government will be able to report concrete legislative progress on the issues raised in the very near future and requests it to provide copies of the new legislation once adopted.