Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2019, published 109th ILC session (2021)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Dominican Republic (Ratification: 1953)

Scope of application of the Convention. Self-employed workers. The Committee recalls that the Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA) referred to it the follow-up of the legislative aspects of Case No. 2786, in which the Government was requested to take the necessary measures to ensure that self-employed workers fully enjoy freedom of association rights, including collective bargaining rights, and to identify the particularities of self-employed workers that have a bearing on collective bargaining so as to develop adequate and specific collective bargaining mechanisms (see 383th Report, October 2017, paragraph 41). The Committee invites the Government to hold consultations with all stakeholders, with the aim of ensuring that self-employed workers can engage in collective bargaining. The Committee considers that such consultations will allow the Government and the social partners concerned to identify the appropriate modifications to introduce in relation to collective negotiation mechanisms, in order to facilitate their application to self-employed workers. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the progress made in this respect.

Right to collective bargaining in practice. Private sector. In its previous comments, the Committee requested the Government to continue taking measures to encourage and promote collective bargaining and requested the Government to provide statistics including data on the total number of collective agreements in force in the country, indicating the sectors and number of workers covered, as well as on the measures adopted to encourage and promote collective bargaining. In the absence of information from the Government, the Committee reiterates its previous request.