Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Saint Lucia (Ratification: 1980)

The Committee notes with regret that for the eighth year in succession, the Government's report has not been received.

It recalls that its previous comments concerned the need to amend sections 18(7) and 19 B(2) of the Trade Unions and Trade Disputes Ordinance of 1959 which provide that the Registrar may "at any time by an order in writing" inspect trade union accounts, by restricting their application to cases of presumed infringements coming to light from the presentation of annual financial reports or to cases of complaints by members of the union. The Committee had noted from the Government's report of 1991 that it had planned to review its labour legislation, with the assistance of the ILO, in order to bring it into conformity with ratified Conventions. It urges once again the Government to indicate in its report the measures that it has taken to bring the legislation into conformity with Article 3 of the Convention and national practice.