Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2019, published 109th ILC session (2021)

Collective Bargaining Convention, 1981 (No. 154) - Czechia (Ratification: 2017)

The Committee notes the Government’s first report. The Committee also takes note of the observations of the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions, and of the Confederation of Industry and Transport (SPČR) – seconded by the Confederation of Employers’ and Entrepreneurs’ Associations (KZPS) and the Czech Confederation of Commerce and Tourism (SOCR) – communicated with the Government’s report, as well as the Government’s comments thereon.

The Committee notes the diverging views expressed by the employer organizations and the Government regarding the regulation on the binding effect of higher-level collective agreements (section 25(2)(a) of the Labour Code). Recalling that under Article 7 of the Convention measures taken by public authorities to encourage and promote the development of collective bargaining shall be the subject of prior consultation and, whenever possible, agreement between public authorities and employers’ and workers’ organisations, the Committee encourages the Government and the social partners to continue discussing this matter.

Article 1(3) of the Convention. Collective bargaining in the public service. The Committee notes with interest the Government’s indication that workers in all sectors of economic activity can participate in collective bargaining through trade unions, and that the Civil Service Act regulates in its section 143 the procedure for concluding a collective agreement applicable to public servants. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the number of collective agreements concluded and in force in the public service, the sectors concerned and the number of workers covered by these agreements.