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Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Niger (RATIFICATION: 1961)

The Committee notes the summary report of the proceedings of the Labour Advisory Committee concerning the draft decree issuing the regulations of the Labour Code.

The Committee notes with regret that the Government has not sent its report on the Convention. It observes, however, that an ILO mission visited Niger in September 2002 in order to provide technical assistance to the Government and the social partners in the context of the tripartite meetings to discuss strikes and the representativeness of occupational organizations.

Articles 3 and 10 of the Convention. With regard to requisitioning, in its previous comments the Committee addressed the need to restrict the scope of Ordinance No. 96-009 of 21 March 1996 to work stoppages likely to provoke an acute national crisis, to public servants exercising authority in the name of the State or to essential services in the strict sense of the term. Noting that the Government has received technical assistance from the ILO on all strike-related issues, the Committee requests the Government to bring section 9 of Ordinance 96-009 into line with the Convention, and to send a copy of the official text adopted to that end.