Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Ethiopia (Ratification: 1963)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government's report contains no reply to previous comments. It hopes that the next report will include full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee had taken due note that according to the Government sections 113, 114 and 117 of the Proclamation on Labour ensure that workers' and employers' organizations have the right to organize freely without external interference.

Observing that the legislation contains no specific provisions, accompanied by effective and sufficiently dissuasive punishments, providing sanctions for an employer responsible for acts of interference in a workers' organization, particularly acts designed to support a workers' organization by financial or other means, the Committee requests the Government to indicate in its next report the measures it has taken or envisages to give full effect to this provision of the Convention.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to adopt the necessary measures in the near future.