Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2024, Publicación: 113ª reunión CIT (2025)

Convenio sobre las relaciones de trabajo en la administración pública, 1978 (núm. 151) - Curazao

In its previous comment, the Committee requested the Government to indicate in detail the provisions of the relevant legislation and administrative regulations giving full legal effect to each of the Articles of the Convention. The Committee notes with satisfaction the information provided by the Government according to which: (i) the Centralized Organized Dialogue on Public Official’s Affairs (CODPOA) is a fundamental platform for negotiation and dialogue on interests related to the legal status of civil servants in Curaçao); (ii) the CODPOA is composed of the Minister of Administration Planning and Service, three representatives of each of the representative unions organization (those with at least 5 per cent of the public officials as members) and is chaired by an independent president; (iii) decisions in the CODPOA are preferably made by consensus, in the absence of consensus, the Advisory an Arbitration Commission can be used to resolve disputes; and (iv) since 2008, various pacts have been negotiated and signed by the parties of the CODPOA, six of them signed between 2019 and 2023.

The Committee takes due note of this information, which underlines the existence of organisations representing public employees that are able to participate in determining the terms and conditions of employment of their members and to have recourse to mechanisms for resolving collective disputes. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on the activities of the CODPOA and the agreements concluded within it. The Committee also requests the Government to provide details of the provisions of the legislation giving effect to Article 4 of the Convention concerning the protection of public employees against all acts of anti-union discrimination.