Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2022, published 111st ILC session (2023)

Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971 (No. 135) - Rwanda (Ratification: 1988)

Article 1 of the Convention.Adequate protection of workers’ representatives against acts of discrimination related to their representative functions. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government according to which (i): article 36 of Ministerial Order No. 003/19.20 of March 2020 relating to employees’ representatives states that an employees’ representative cannot be dismissed on the basis of fulfilment of his or her duties; and (ii) article 30 (3) of Law No. 66/2018 of August 2018 regulating labour in Rwanda, damages paid to victims of unfair dismissal cannot exceed his or her nine (9) month net salary.

The Committee considers that such limits may prove to be insufficient and refers to its comments on the application of the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98), in relation to the protection against acts of anti-union discrimination.