Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2015, published 105th ILC session (2016)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Paraguay (Ratification: 1966)

Article 4 of the Convention. Development of collective bargaining and social dialogue in practice. In its previous comments, the Committee requested the Government to take measures to encourage and promote collective bargaining. The Committee observes that the Government provides no information on this matter in its report. It further observes that the Memorandum of Understanding on International Labour Standards, signed on 1 October 2014 by the Government and the social partners, provided for the organization of a national tripartite seminar on international labour standards relating to collective bargaining (public sector). The Committee again requests the Government to take steps to encourage and promote collective bargaining, as required by Article 4 of the Convention, and to continue to send information in this regard, indicating also the number of collective agreements concluded, the sectors to which they apply and the number of workers covered.