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

Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971 (No. 135) - Luxembourg (Ratification: 1979)

The Committee notes the observations made by the Confederation of Christian Trade Unions of Luxembourg (LCGB) in a communication received on 3 November 2014.

Articles 2 and 5 of the Convention. Facilities to be afforded to workers’ representatives. Measures to be taken to ensure that the position of the trade unions and their representatives is not undermined. The Committee notes that the Bill to reform social dialogue within enterprises was introduced in the Chamber of Deputies on 25 February 2013 and is currently being debated. In this respect, the Committee notes the observations of the LCGB on various aspects of the Bill and particularly on the fact that it would withdraw certain facilities from trade union representatives and would undermine their position in consultation bodies, particularly when the trade union concerned is not in a majority in the enterprise. The Committee requests the Government to provide its comments in reply to the observations of the LCGB and to report on the discussions held as part of the process of adopting the Bill to reform social dialogue within enterprises in relation to the application of the Convention.

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