Individual Case (CAS) - Discussion: 1989, Publication: 76th ILC session (1989)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Greece (Ratification: 1962)

The Government has communicated the following information:

In reply to the observations of the Committee of Experts in regard to the application of Article 4 of the Convention, the Government notes that, in the context of the effort being made to modernise the legal provisions governing collective bargaining in Greece, the Minister of Labour, in 1988, set up a committee of university professors and professors who are experts in labour law. This committee recently submitted a draft Bill it had drawn up; comments on it are being sought from interested parties and representatives of political parties before being put into final form. This draft Bill has already been signed by the competent Ministers and will be placed before Parliament. The draft Bill provides that there shall be no state intervention at any stage of labour dispute resolution (face-to-face negotiations, arbitration), since there are no plans to set up a special corps of arbitrator mediators outside the public service. In addition, no limitation will be placed on the right to strike from the beginning to the end of a conflict or even while dispute resolution is being pursued.