Decision on the fourth item on the agenda: Complaint concerning non-observance by Guatemala of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), made by delegates to the 101st Session (2012) of the International Labour Conference under article 26 of the ILO Constitution

Record of decisions | 15 June 2015

Decision on the fourth item on the agenda: Complaint concerning non-observance by Guatemala of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), made by delegates to the 101st Session (2012) of the International Labour Conference under article 26 of the ILO Constitution

Bearing in mind that, at its 325th Session (November 2015), the Governing Body would consider the decision to establish a commission of inquiry and, in the light of the information provided by the Government and the workers’ and employers’ organizations of Guatemala in relation to the key indicators and the points in the roadmap, on the recommendation of its Officers the Governing Body:

(a) urged the Government to take, without delay, with the assistance of the Office, all the measures necessary to fully implement the key indicators and the roadmap, including the priority areas that continued to require additional and urgent action;

(b) requested the Office to provide the Officers of the Governing Body, at its 325th Session (November 2015), with updated information on the progress made, including information provided by the Government and the employers’ and workers’ organizations of Guatemala, in particular on the follow-up given to the key indicators and the points of the roadmap;

(c) invited the international community to make available the necessary resources to enable the office of the Special Representative of the ILO Director-General in Guatemala to continue to support the tripartite constituents in the implementation of the memorandum of understanding and the roadmap.

(Document GB.324/INS/4, paragraph 27.)