Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Hungary (Ratification: 1957)

With reference to the new laws that have been adopted recently, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply information on the following points:

Article 2 of the Convention. Within what period of time must the attorney general transmit courts' decision to give effect to a request to register a trade union organisation (section 15 of Act No. II of 1989)?

Article 3. What is the scope of section 3(1)(c) of Act No. VII of 1989 on the right to strike which prohibits the calling of a strike to challenge any individual act or omission on the part of an employer which could be settled by judicial means, and section 3(3) of the same Act, which prohibits the calling of a strike if it constitutes a threat to the environment? In addition, what is the scope of section 1(3) according to which any abuse of the right to strike is prohibited?