Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2023, published 112nd ILC session (2024)

Labour Relations (Public Service) Convention, 1978 (No. 151) - Guyana (Ratification: 1983)

Previous comment

Article 7 of the Convention. Procedures for determining terms and conditions of employment. Application of the Convention in practice. In its previous comment. the Committee requested the Government to provide updated information on the manner in which, in practice, the organizations representing the public employees participate in determining the conditions of employment of the latter.

The Committee notes that the Government limits itself to: (i) referring first to the operation of the Guyana Public Service Commission, the constitutional body responsible for determining the terms and conditions of remuneration and employment of public service workers on the basis of the principles and guidelines of the Guyana Public Service Rules and the Public Service Commission Rules; (ii) then mentioning that the Trade Union Recognition Act 98: 07 provides that where a ‘recognised workers’ organization obtains a certificate of recognition in respect of the workers in its bargaining unit, the organization and the employer shall bargain in good faith, in particular to determine collectively the terms and conditions of employment of the workers; and (iii) state that it has no further information on the application of the convention in practice.

The Committee is therefore obliged to request once again the Government to provide updated information on the manner in which, in practice, the organizations representing the public employees participate in determining the conditions of employment of the latter and to indicate in particular: (i) to what extent the public service trade unions are associated to the activities of the Guyana Public Service Commission; and (ii) whether there are collective agreements in force in the public service, indicating for each of them their scope and the number of public servants covered.