Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Lesotho (Ratification: 1966)

With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes with satisfaction that the Labour Code which was drawn up with the technical assistance of the ILO entered into force on 12 November 1992. The Committee notes that section 241 of the Code repeals Act No. 34 of 1975 which provided that the banking sector was an essential service where the workers were deprived of the right to strike and that section 232(1) defines essential services as those services whose interruption would endanger the life, personal safety or health of all or any part of the population of Lesotho, thereby addressing the Committee's previous concerns with respect to the application of the Convention.