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

Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971 (No. 135) - Aruba

The Committee notes the Government’s report.

1. The Committee had noted in its previous comments the declaration of the Government, according to which it will make efforts to seek the advice of the Labour Department for the formalization of some facilities concerning the access of the trade union leaders to the workplace of the employer and the distribution of union materials in the private sector. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures taken concerning this matter.

2. The Committee had also noted in its previous comments that the Department of Labour was undertaking a complete revision of existing labour legislation and had requested the Government to provide information on this legislation review and had hoped that it would have taken into account the provisions of the Convention. The Committee notes the declaration of the Government, according to which the labour legislation is still under way, that an interim report on the work of a special committee has been completed and that, after the final approval of the content by its members, it will be published. The Committee requests the Government to communicate the abovementioned report and expresses the hope that the future legislation will be in accordance with the provisions of the Convention concerning the protection of workers’ representatives and the facilities to be afforded to them to enable them to carry out their functions properly and efficiently.