Compilation of decisions of the Committee on Freedom of Association

Facilities for workers representatives18

Use of the undertakings facilities

1. Workers representatives should enjoy such facilities as may be necessary for the proper exercise of their functions, including the use of email.

1. Although the modalities for the use of email in the workplace by trade unions should be a matter for negotiation between the parties, in the event that the union organization is able to use its own email account from the workplace to contact its members, the fact that trade union communications must be sent using the institutional email address of the organization, and not the firms email address, does not appear to limit the principles of freedom of association.

1. There should be no unauthorized use of official vehicles in the context of the exercise of freedom of association.