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

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Dominican Republic (Ratification: 1956)

In its previous comments, the Committee noted the adoption of the Public Service Act No. 41-08 and its implementing Regulations (Decree No. 523-09) and requested the Government to indicate whether the prohibition upon organizations of public servants from carrying out political activities or activities incompatible with the purposes of the State either within or outside the workplace, envisaged in section 88(1) of the Regulations, implies that public officials who do not exercise authority in the name of the State are prohibited from using strike action to support their positions in the search for solutions to problems posed by major social and economic policy trends which have a direct impact on them and on workers in general, in particular with regard to employment, social protection and the standard of living.

The Committee also observed that section 88(2) of the Regulations prohibits organizations of public servants from promoting, initiating or supporting strikes in public services the interruption of which would endanger the life, personal safety or health of citizens and it requested the Government to specify the public services in which strikes can be prohibited.

The Committee once again requests the Government to provide the requested information in its next report.