Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 323, November 2000

Case No 1992 (Brazil) - Complaint date: 31-AUG-98 - Closed

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

1. 32. The Committee last examined this case (concerning dismissals following a strike and other anti-union acts) at its meeting in March 2000 [see 320th Report, paras. 286-298]. On that occasion, the Committee took note of the communication sent by the Government in September 1999 and requested the Government to inform it of the final outcome of the judicial proceedings concerning the 54 workers of the ECT enterprise who remained dismissed after the strike held in September 1997.
2. 33. In a communication dated 21 June 2000, the Government gives the Committee an account of the current status of each of the proceedings initiated in connection with this case. According to this account, 14 individual court cases are still pending before lower courts; 21 are the subject of appeals; three have yet to be declared admissible, the complaints in question having originally been ruled inadmissible. In ten cases the dismissed workers in question were reinstated; in two cases the disputed dismissals were upheld after being ruled admissible; in one case, the dismissal was confirmed and compensation agreed by the parties; in one case, a worker was reinstated under the terms of a court settlement; and in another case dismissal with compensation was authorized by the court. The last court case was initiated by a worker who is currently on sick leave.
3. 34. The Committee notes this information and requests the Government to inform it of the final outcome of all the judicial proceedings in question.