Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2015, published 105th ILC session (2016)

Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971 (No. 135) - Mongolia (Ratification: 1996)

Article 2 of the Convention. Facilities afforded to workers’ respresentatives. The Committee had noted in its previous comments that under provision 18.1.11 of the Labour Act, collective agreements shall provide the necessary facilities to trade unions and their elected officials to enable them to carry out their functions promptly and efficiently. The Committee had recalled that the Workers’ Representatives Recommendation, 1971 (No. 143), gives some examples of such facilities: time off from work to attend trade union meetings, congresses, etc.; access to all workplaces in the undertaking, where necessary; distribution to workers of publications; and the possibility of collecting trade union dues regularly on the premises of the enterprise, etc. The Committee had further noted the Government’s indications that: (i) trade union elected and non-elected officials are provided opportunities to participate in and attend conferences, meetings and seminars organized by their respective trade unions; (ii) workers’ representatives are free to carry out their legal functions at any workplace; (iii) trade unions are provided with rights to publish and distribute their own information and publications to workers and the public; and (iv) actual rates of membership dues are fixed by all members. Noting that the Government is in the process of reviewing and revising its labour legislation, the Committee invites it to consider including some of these elements in its labour laws. It requests the Government to provide information on the progress made in this regard.