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

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

Article 3 of the Convention. Right of employers’ and workers’ organizations to organize their activities and formulate their programmes. With regard to the determination of a minimum service in sanitary services, the Committee notes that the Government agreed with the social partners that sanitary services be removed altogether from the list of essential services as per the Industrial Relations Act (IRA).

The Committee further recalls that, for a number of years, it had reminded the Government that a general prohibition on sympathy strikes could lead to abuse and that workers should be able to take such action provided the initial strike they are supporting is itself lawful. While observing that the IRA does not address sympathy strikes and has not yet been amended in this respect, the Committee previously noted from the Government’s indication that the workers’ side had not yet submitted any proposal for amendment. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on any developments in this regard.

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