Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Guinea-Bissau (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee notes with interest from available ILO records the adoption by the Parliamentary Assembly of laws respecting freedom of association and the right to strike.

Article 1 of the Convention. The Committee takes due note of the fact that the new Act respecting the right to freedom of association provides in section 10 and section 48(3) for the protection of freedom of association in employment, forbidding discrimination against workers, including at the time of recruitment, on the grounds of their membership or non-membership of a workers' organisation and prohibiting them from being obliged to leave such an organisation under the penalty of a fine.

Article 2. The Committee also notes with interest that the new text provides in section 5, subsection 1 and 2, and section 48, subsection 3: for protection of trade unions against any act of interference in respect of their establishment, functioning, administration or activities; and prohibits employers or employers' associations from favouring workers' organisations by granting economic or financial advantages with the object of interfering in their functioning or subordinating them to objectives which are different from their own aims, again under the penalty of a fine.

The Committee requests the Government to inform it when the above Acts are published in the Official Bulletin and to state the date of their coming into force.