Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Sao Tome and Principe (Ratification: 1992)

Article 3 of the Convention. Rights of organizations to organize their activities and to formulate their programmes. The Committee recalls that for several years, it has been requesting the Government to take measures to amend various provisions of Act No. 4/92 and Act No. 4-2002, which relate to various obstacles concerning the exercise of the right to strike, with a view to bringing them into conformity with the Convention (see the Committee’s last observation, published in 2013). The Committee notes that in its report the Government confines itself to providing the text of Act No. 4/92. Under these circumstances, the Committee requests the Government to take measures to revise, in consultation with the social partners and, if it so wishes, with the technical assistance of the Office, the legislative provisions referred to in several previous observations, and to provide information in its next report on any measures adopted in this respect.