Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 354, June 2009

Case No 2455 (Morocco) - Complaint date: 29-OCT-05 - Closed

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

1. 143. The Committee last examined this case at its June 2008 meeting [see 350th Report, paras 126–129]. It concerns the refusal of Royal Air Maroc (RAM) to recognize the Moroccan Union of Aviation Technicians (STAM), the refusal to negotiate with STAM and acts of anti-union discrimination against its members. In its last recommendations, the Committee expressed the sincere hope that the Government would take the necessary steps as soon as possible to ensure that RAM recognizes STAM and that it negotiates with its representatives in future in the same way as with the representatives of the other representative trade union federations at the enterprise. The Committee also asked the Government to report in detail on compensation for the engineers and their current situation in relation to the dispute with the management in 2006, and particularly to supply copies of legal decisions ruling on their administrative leave.
2. 144. In a communication dated 17 September 2008, the Government indicates that, according to information from the Ministry of Employment, the trade unionists affiliated to STAM do not suffer any discrimination. Moreover, the request concerning the legal decisions ruling on the engineers’ administrative leave in 2006 has been brought before the Department of Justice. Finally, the Government indicates that the RAM management has the right, in accordance with the provisions of the Labour Code, to negotiate with the most representative trade unions at the enterprise. In a communication dated 16 February 2009, the Government reiterates that the dispute has been resolved through negotiation and recourse to the competent courts and declares that consequently there is no longer any need for examination of the present case by the Committee on Freedom of Association.
3. 145. The Committee notes this general information. Recalling that its previous recommendations were made further to serious allegations by the complainant concerning acts of anti-union discrimination by RAM against members of STAM, the Committee trusts that the negotiations referred to by the Government concerning the dispute in 2006 between RAM and STAM have resulted in full compensation for the engineers and requests the Government to supply information on the current status of STAM within the enterprise.