Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2024, publiée 113ème session CIT (2025)

Convention (n° 11) sur le droit d'association (agriculture), 1921 - Maurice (Ratification: 1969)

The Committee notes the observations of the Confederation of Public and Private Sector Workers (CTSP), appended to the Government’s report, drawing attention to the difficulty in accessing workers in the agricultural sector. The Committee requests the Government to provide information in respect of these allegations.

Self-employed workers. In its previous direct request, the Committee requested the Government to ensure, including through legislative measures, that self-employed workers in the agricultural sector, in particular workers working on medium-sized and smallholder farms, enjoy the same rights of association and combination as industrial workers, including the rights to form and join trade unions and to conclude collective agreements. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that, while the 2019 Employment Relations Act does not cover self-employed workers, its section 13 provides that any person may become member of a trade union, provided the person has been a worker in the past, which extends coverage to a certain number of self-employed workers. The Committee also notes the Government’s indication that self-employed workers are entitled to constitute associations by virtue of the definition provided under section 2 of the Act on Registration of Associations (1978) and that such associations enjoy the right to negotiate to safeguard the rights and interests of their members, whether at regional or national level. The Committee requests the Government to specify the current number of associations of self-employed workers in the agricultural sector that have been registered under the Act on Registration of Associations (1978) and to provide any relevant information in this regard, in particular with respect to possible negotiations conducted by these associations.