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

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Namibia (Ratification: 1995)

Article 2 of the Convention. Right to organize of prison staff. The Committee previously requested the Government to take all necessary steps to ensure that prison staff have the right to establish and join organizations for furthering and defending their interests; and recalls in this respect that a Tripartite Task Force, established to review the Labour Act, 2007, proposed the deletion of section 2(2)(d), which excludes members of the prison services from its scope. The Committee recalls the Government’s indication that the Task Force was to submit its final report to the responsible minister before December 2021. The Committee notes the Government’s only indication that the Task Force is at an advanced stage with its work and that a copy of the text will be supplied if the amendments are adopted into law. Noting with regret that the work of the Task Force has not yet yielded tangible results, as had been previously indicated by the Government, the Committee urges the Government to take measures to expedite the process for adoption of the necessary legislative amendments to ensure that the prison staff enjoy the guarantees under the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on all progress made in this respect.