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

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Congo (Ratification: 1960)

The Committee notes the observations made by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in a communication received on 1 September 2014. The Committee notes with concern the allegations relating to the abduction in June 2013 of Mr Dominique Ntsienkoulou, a member of the Dialogue Group for the Redevelopment of the Teaching Profession (CRPE), by officials of the Provincial Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DDST) and his subsequent disappearance. The Committee urges the Government to launch an investigation into this matter without delay and to send its comments on these serious allegations and on the allegations of the arbitrary arrest of teachers who are trade unionists by the Directorate-General for Territorial Surveillance (DGST) in April 2013.

Article 3 of the Convention. Right of workers’ organizations to conduct their activities in freedom and formulate their programmes. In its previous comments the Committee referred to the need to amend the legislation on the minimum service organized by the employer to be maintained in the public service that is indispensable for safeguarding the general interest (section 248-15 of the Labour Code), in order to limit the minimum service to operations which are strictly necessary to meet the basic needs of the population, within the framework of a negotiated minimum service. The Committee recalls that the Government undertook to take account of the principles reiterated in the process of the current revision of the Labour Code. The Committee requests the Government to provide information in its next report on any new developments in this respect.

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2015.]