Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Netherlands (Ratification: 1950)

With reference to the comments it has been making for several years on the need to repeal sections 10 and 11 of the law governing terms and conditions of employment in the national insurance funded and subsidized sectors - known as the "WAGGS" Act - so that employers and workers would be permitted freely to conclude collective agreements in relation to their terms and conditions of employment in these sectors, the Committee notes with satisfaction that the sections in question have been repealed by Act No. 557 of 27 October 1993.