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

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Panama (Ratification: 1958)

The Committee notes that section 452(3) of the Labour Code confers on the labour authorities at the regional or national levels the right to submit collective disputes to compulsory arbitration when they occur in a public service enterprise, as determined in section 486 of the Labour Code.

In the Committee's opinion, the services of transport and food included under section 486 are not per se essential services in the strict sense of the term.

The Committee requests the Government to take the appropriate measures to permit workers in these services to exercise the right to strike.