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

Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971 (No. 135) - Rwanda (Ratification: 1988)

The Committee notes the Government's report.

Article 2 of the Convention. With reference to its previous direct request concerning the need to grant more facilities to workers' representatives in order to enable them to carry out their functions promptly and efficiently, the Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report, as well as Circular No. 5479/06.18/0161/87 of 11 November 1987 respecting the rights and duties of members of enterprise trade union committees.

Article 4. The Committee recalls that by virtue of section 160 of the Labour Code, the Minister of Labour shall, by an order made on the advice of the Labour Advisory Board, prescribe inter alia the minimum number of workers above which, and the category of establishments in which the election of staff representatives shall be compulsory; the number of representatives and their distribution among the various occupations; the procedure of elections; the conditions to be fulfilled by electors and candidates for election. Regretting that the Government confines itself to indicating in its report that a study concerning such an order is still being carried out, the Committee expresses the firm hope that the Government will be able to supply information on the results of this study in its next report and that it will forward the text of any order which is adopted under section 160 of the Labour Code.

[The Government is asked to report in detail for the period ending 30 June 1994.]