Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2017, published 107th ILC session (2018)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Iraq (Ratification: 1962)

The Committee notes with interest the approval of the ratification of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), on 21 November 2017 by the Parliament of the Republic of Iraq.

The Committee notes the late receipt of the Government’s report. It observes that the Government reports the adoption of the new Labour Code in 2015. The Committee will examine the Government’s report and the new legislation at its next session in order to evaluate its conformity with the Convention and ensure that the comments made by the Committee regarding the previous legislation have been taken into consideration.