Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Croatia (Ratification: 1991)

The Committee notes the comments submitted by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) dated 4 August 2011.

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It is therefore bound to reiterate the issues raised by the Committee in its previous observation.

Article 3 of the Convention. Right of employers’ and workers’ organizations to draw up their constitutions and rules, to elect their representatives in full freedom and to organize their administration and activities. In its previous comments, the Committee had recalled that since 1996, it has been commenting over the issue of the distribution of trade union assets and urged the Government to determine the criteria for the division of trade union assets in consultation with workers’ organizations and to fix a specific time frame for completing the division of the property. The Committee had noted the Government’s indication that: (i) for the division of trade union assets to be addressed, it was first necessary to establish the criteria for determining the representativeness of trade unions; and (ii) the Minister of the Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship issued a decision specifying the names of the associations meeting the requirements laid down in section 2 of the Act on the Method of Determining the Representation of Trade Union Associations of a Higher Level in Tripartite Bodies at the National Level (OG 18/99) and the number of trade unions affiliated to these associations. In these circumstances, given that the representativeness criteria have already been defined, the Committee expresses the firm hope that the Government will take the necessary measures in the very near future to address the issue of the distribution of trade union assets and requests the Government to provide information thereon in its next report.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the near future