Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Gabon (Ratification: 1961)

The Committee notes the comments of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) of 10 August 2006, according to which trade unionists in both the public service and the private sector are frequently victims of discrimination and harassment, as well as dismissal. The Committee notes the Government’s declaration concerning in particular the agreement on a “social negotiated truce” that will expire in 2006 which provides that parties are involved in a follow up committee and that acts of interference and of anti-union discrimination are forbidden and are punished by legislation; some of the cases mentioned by the ICFTU have been agreed upon.