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

Labour Relations (Public Service) Convention, 1978 (No. 151) - Mali (Ratification: 1995)

Articles 4 and 5 of the Convention Protection against anti-union discrimination and interference. The Committee notes once again with regret that the Government still has not included any explicit provisions on protection against anti-union discrimination and interference in the General Civil Service Regulations, even though it has indicated its intention to do so. The Committee urges the Government to take the necessary steps in the near future to ensure that the legislation includes explicit provisions providing adequate protection against anti-union discrimination for public employees and against all acts of interference by the public authorities in the formation, functioning and administration of public employees’ organizations, all of which should be accompanied by rapid and effective remedies and sufficiently dissuasive sanctions.

Article 7. Procedures for determining terms and conditions of employment. In its previous comments, the Committee noted that it was not established that public employees’ organizations may participate in the determination of their terms and conditions of employment through negotiation or other methods within the joint administrative committees, as their competence is confined to individual issues. The Committee requests the Government to provide up-to-date information on how, in practice, organizations representing public employees participate in the determination of their terms and conditions of employment.As to the right to collective bargaining of organizations representing public servants not engaged in the administration of the State, the Committee refers to its comments on the application of the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98).