Observación (CEACR) - Adopción: 1996, Publicación: 85ª reunión CIT (1997)

Convenio sobre la libertad sindical y la protección del derecho de sindicación, 1948 (núm. 87) - Chipre (Ratificación : 1966)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

Restrictions on the right to strike. With reference to its previous comments on the need to amend sections 79A and 79B of the Defence Regulations, which allow the Council of Ministers to ban strikes in certain services which it considers essential, the Committee notes that the Government's latest report contains no information on any further developments following the tripartite meeting of October 1992, held under the chairmanship of the Minister of Labour and Social Insurance, at which the Minister of Finance was also present, and which was to examine this matter. The Committee recalls that the notion of essential services in the context of international labour Conventions covers solely those services, the interruption of which would endanger the life, safety or health of the whole or part of the population. It trusts that new provisions that are in keeping with these principles will be adopted in the near future and again asks the Government to inform it of any new developments in this respect in its next report, and particularly to provide the text of any new provisions as soon as they have been adopted.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.