Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Ratification: 2001)

The Committee had previously referred to the need to amend the following sections of the Trade Unions Act (TUA): section 11(3), so as to eliminate the discretionary authority of the registrar in respect of the registration of trade unions; and section 25, so as to limit the powers of the registrar to conduct investigations into the accounts of trade unions. The Committee notes from the Government’s report that the new Labour Bill, which, as previously stated, would repeal the abovementioned sections of the TUA, was still awaiting Cabinet’s approval. It once again expresses the hope that the Bill would be adopted in the near future and requests the Government to indicate any developments in this regard.