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

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Gabon (Ratification: 1960)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comment:

The Committee requests the Government to transmit any implementing legislation of the Labour Code regarding minimum service as well as any other text in respect of the Convention to enable it to examine the scope with reference to the principles of freedom of association.

The Committee regrets that the Government has failed to supply information in response to the comments by the Federation of Energy, Mines and Affiliated Free Trade Unions (FLEEMA) and the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Gabon (CGSL) regarding the refusal of the directors of the enterprise COGEMAT to allow the personnel thereof to join and participate in FLEEMA trade union activities, on the pretext of not belonging to the same sector of activity.

The Committee requests the Government to supply information in its next report concerning measures taken to grant COGEMAT personnel the right to join the trade union of their choice, in conformity with the provisions of Article 2 of the Convention.