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

Convention (n° 151) sur les relations de travail dans la fonction publique, 1978 - Namibie (Ratification: 2018)

Article 1 of the Convention. Scope of application. The Committee refers to its comments under the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) concerning the right to organize for prison staff.

Article 6. Facilities to be afforded to public employees’ organizations. The Committee notes the Government’s indications concerning the facilities afforded to the representatives of the Namibia Public Workers Union (NAPWU) and the Namibia National Teachers Union (NANTU), including the permission to meet among themselves and with their members within the workplace during non-working time, to access educational institutions during working hours for conducting union business and holding union meetings, as well as to use demarcated sections of notice boards for the display of union notices and literature. The Committee requests the Government to keep providing information in this respect.

Article 7. Participation of organizations of public employees in the determination of terms and conditions of employment of their members. The Committee noted that any collective agreement involving expenditure had to contain a clause providing for the approval of the Treasury in order to be implemented. The Government indicates that the Treasury’s responsibility is to ensure that all activities undertaken by the State are funded and to protect the State from financial risk associated with expenditure, including in relation to collective agreements. The Committee notes the Government’s indications that during the bargaining process, the Treasury provides financial guidance on the ability of the State to afford any increases in expenditure associated to the collective agreement yet to be concluded, as well as financial data, in order to assist the parties in taking informed and proper decisions. The Government adds that the Treasury also provides the financial backing required for a collective agreement to be concluded, by confirming the availability of the necessary funds or by ensuring that provisions are catered for in future budgets.

The Committee further requests the Government to continue providing information on the development of collective bargaining with public employee’s organizations, indicating the number of agreements signed and in force, the institutions concerned and the number of public employees covered.