Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 308, November 1997

Case No 1823 (Guatemala) - Complaint date: 17-FEB-95 - Closed

Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body

1. 39. At its meeting of June 1997, the Committee made the following recommendations on the pending allegations (see 307th Report, para. 301):
   • (a) Profoundly deploring the Government's continuing negative attitude to its recommendations in this case, the Committee once again urges the Government to immediately grant legal personality to the Trade Union of Workers of the General Labour Inspectorate (STIGT). The Committee requests the Government to keep it informed of any measures it may take in this regard.
   • (b) The Committee requests the Government to investigate why Ms. Malbina Dioderet Barrera, a member of the STIGT, renounced legal protection against her dismissal, and if it is found that her dismissal was the result of anti-union pressure it requests that measures be taken to reinstate her in her position. The Committee requests the Government to keep it informed in this regard.
   • (c) As regards the change in functions of 18 inspectors who were founding members of the Trade Union, the Committee requests the Government once again, in consultation with the 18 inspectors, to revoke the change in their functions. The Committee requests the Government to keep it informed in this regard.
2. 40. In its communications of 10 June and 10 September 1997, the Government states that the members of the STIGT joined the General Trade Union of Employees of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance (in a letter of 10 June 1997, members of the General Labour Inspectorate request the Committee to close the case since an agreement has been reached). The Government also encloses a letter dated 11 August 1997 in which Ms. Malbina Dioderet states that her withdrawal was not motivated by anti-trade union pressure. As regards the change in functions of 18 inspectors, the current General Labour Inspectorate adopted a decision to reinstate them in their previous positions.
3. 41. The Committee notes with satisfaction this information.