Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Belarus (Ratification: 1956)

Article 3.  The right of workers’ organizations to organize their activities in full freedom.  With reference to its observation, the Committee notes that section 5 of the Labour Code of January 2000 provides that it applies to public service employees in cases and within limits fixed in special laws and regulations determining their legal status. It requests the Government to provide any relevant legislative texts in this regard and to indicate the extent to which the provisions of Part IV of the Code concerning general rules of regulation of collective labour relations applies to public service employees. It further requests the Government to specify the legislation which regulates the collective labour relations of employees of governing councils who are excluded from the code by virtue of section 6.