Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 342, June 2006

Case No 2148 (Togo) - Complaint date: 11-JUN-01 - Closed

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

1. 158. The Committee last examined this case at its March 2005 sitting [see 336th Report, paras. 113 to 115]. On that occasion, the Committee noted that the events which gave rise to this complaint dated from June 1999 and that the Government had still not acted on the Committee’s recommendation, reiterated since March 2002, to rescind the decrees declaring certain teachers absent without leave. The Committee again urged the Government to rescind the decrees and to keep it informed of developments in that regard.
2. 159. In a communication of 5 January 2006, the Government referred to the statement made in its communication of 6 January 2005 that, in view of the difficulties arising from the case, it had been agreed with the union concerned – the National Union of Independent Trade Unions of Togo (UNSIT) – that this matter would be dealt with at the social dialogue meetings due to be held during the first quarter of 2005. Due to the events that arose in Togo in 2005, the process only resumed in July 2005; it ended on 12 September with the signing of an agreement on the terms of reference for social dialogue, featuring Case No. 2148 among the priority points for discussion. Work was due to restart in January 2006.
3. 160. The Committee takes note of this information. Recalling once again that the events which gave rise to this complaint date from June 1999, in the context of a legal strike calling for the payment of arrears and outstanding wages, the Committee again urges the Government to rescind the decrees in question and to communicate swiftly the results of the social dialogue due to be held in January 2006, as well as the decisions taken as a result regarding the teachers who are still affected by the application of the decrees.