Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Chad (Ratification: 1960)

The Committee notes with deep regret that the Government has not provided any comments on the observations of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) of 1 September 2016, which relate to the legal procedures governing the right to strike, cases of serious violations of trade union and fundamental rights and the determination of essential services. The Committee urges the Government to reply to these observations.

Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention. Labour Code. The Committee recalls that on many occasions it has requested the Government to take measures to amend sections 294(3) and 307 of the Labour Code with a view to recognizing the trade union rights of minors who have reached the statutory minimum age to enter the labour market in accordance with the Labour Code (14 years), either as workers or apprentices, without the intervention of their parents or guardians, and to limiting monitoring by the public authorities of the finances of trade unions to the requirement to submit periodic reports. The Committee notes the Government’s reply, according to which the Act to issue the Labour Code has been revised and that Committee’s concerns have been taken into account. However, the Committee regrets that the Government has not provided further information on the adoption of the legislation referred to above. The Committee expects that the Labour Code will be promulgated in the near future and that it will give full effect to the provisions of the Convention on the points referred to above. It requests the Government to provide a copy of the text that is adopted.

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.