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

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - British Virgin Islands

The Committee notes the adoption of a new Labour Code in 2010 (Act No. 4 of 2010).

Article 1 of Convention. Protection against acts of anti-union discrimination. The Committee notes with satisfaction that the new Labour Code provides for protection against anti-union discrimination (sections 44, 82(1) and (2), 85 and 86), providing even reinstatement and other dissuasive sanctions.

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