Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 321, June 2000

Case No 1935 (Nigeria) - Complaint date: 01-AUG-97 - Closed

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

1. 51. During its last examination of this case in March 1999 [315th Report, paras. 1-26], the Committee urged the Government to amend the Trade Unions Act in order to ensure the right of workers to form and join the union of their own choosing at all levels, to take the necessary measures to repeal section 7(9) which confers overly broad powers on the Minister to cancel trade union registration and to amend the legislative requirement to include "no-strike" and "no lock-out" clauses in collective agreements in order to benefit from check-off facilities. Furthermore, the Committee urged the Government to amend the International Affiliation Decree so as to ensure that workers' organizations may affiliate with the international workers' organization of their own choosing free from interference by the public authorities.
2. 52. In a communication dated 9 March 2000, the Government reiterates a number of measures it had taken to ensure greater conformity with the principles of freedom of association and which were taken into account when the Committee last examined this case. It expresses the hope that the comprehensive details of the measures taken by the Government to redress all the complaints in Cases Nos. 1793 and 1935 will receive the approval of the Committee.
3. 53. The Committee takes note of this information. It refers the Government once again to the conclusions and recommendations made when it last examined this case in March 1999 and requests the Government to keep it informed of any developments in this respect.