Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Namibia (Ratification: 1995)

The Committee notes that according to the Government the Labour Act. No. 11 of 2007 entered into force on 1 November 2008.

Article 6 of the Convention. Rights of prison staff. The Committee had previously noted that section 2(2)(d) of the Labour Act excludes members of the Namibian prison service from the Labour Act’s provisions, unless the Prisons Service Act provides otherwise, and had also noted that the Prisons Service Act does not provide for the extension of the new Labour Act’s guarantees to the Namibian prison service. Noting that the Government provides no information respecting this matter, the Committee once again expresses the hope that the necessary legislative amendments to guarantee, to the prisons services, the rights provided under the Convention will be adopted in the near future and once again requests the Government to indicate, in its next report, any developments in this regard.

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.