Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 318, November 1999

Case No 1875 (Costa Rica) - Complaint date: 19-MAR-96 - Closed

Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body

1. 39. At its March 1997 meeting the Committee made the following recommendation regarding the pending allegations of anti-union discrimination (see the Committee's 306th Report, para. 361): "The Committee requests the Government to take measures to facilitate the reinstatement in their jobs of the largest possible number of dismissed UNEIDA executive board members."
2. 40. In its communications of 27 August and 7 September 1999, the Government refers to the considerable efforts which it has made to comply with the Committee's recommendations, and indicates that the case is currently being heard by the courts of second instance, where the complainant must present its observations and objections at the appropriate time and in the appropriate form.
3. 41. The Government attaches documents indicating that the executive of the IDA as a gesture of good faith ordered the provisional reinstatement of four of the dismissed union leaders; five other union officials are still awaiting a decision.
4. 42. The Committee notes this information with interest, while recalling that the dismissals of the union leaders date from 1996 and occurred in an autonomous state establishment. The Committee requests the Government to take measures that will bring about a rapid solution to the dismissals that are still pending, taking into account the favourable rulings already handed down in the lower court.