Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 333, March 2004

Case No 2237 (Colombia) - Complaint date: 20-NOV-02 - Closed

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

1. 41. The Committee last examined this case at its November 2003 meeting [see 332nd Report, paras. 39-41]. On that occasion, the Committee requested the Government to take steps to see that an investigation was carried out without delay to determine whether a number of members of SINTRATEXTIL at the Hilazas Vanylon Enterprise S.A. had renounced their membership as a result of the wage discrimination carried out by the enterprise because of their trade union membership.
2. 42. In its communication of 24 December 2003, the Government states that the territorial directorate of Atlántico carried out an administrative labour investigation and issued Decision No. 000759 of 10 July 2001 (text attached), which declared that it was not competent to decide legal disputes and that competency lay, in this case, with the ordinary labour courts.
3. 43. The Committee notes this information and notes that the text of Decision No. 000759 implies that there is a disparity in the wages paid to the different workers working in the same departments at the Hilazas Vanylon Enterprise S.A. Although the Committee has no other facts, it requests the Government to ensure that workers at the enterprise are not discriminated against with regard to wages because of their trade union membership, and that the Government keep it informed of any steps taken in this respect.