Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2023, published 112nd ILC session (2024)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Cyprus (Ratification: 1966)

The Committee notes that the Government has provided a copy of the Law of 2012 on the recognition of union organizations and the right to the provision of facilities for collective bargaining (Law No. 55(I)/2012).

The Committee notes that section 7 of the Law relates to the transmission by the union of the information required for its registration by the clerk of the register in relation to its representative status for the purposes of collective bargaining. Section 7(1)(b) establishes, as a condition for such registration, that the employer has, in the negotiating unit covered by the request, at least 30 employees on average over the six-month period preceding the date of the request. Recalling that the Convention applies to workers irrespective of the size of the enterprise for which they work, the Committee requests the Government to provide further details on the machinery that allows workers in enterprises with fewer than 30 employees to exercise their right to collective bargaining.