Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Ethiopia (Ratification: 1963)

The Committee notes that, although the national legislation contains provisions, accompanied by penal sanctions, protecting workers against acts of anti-union discrimination during employment (sections 107(2) and 113(4) of the Labour Proclamation of 1975), such protection is not provided at the time of recruitment.

According to the information supplied previously by the Government, a provision to this effect was to have been introduced into the new labour legislation, although in practice no case of discrimination at the time of recruitment has been reported.

The Committee points out that Article 1 of the Convention provides for this protection, not only during employment, but also at the time of recruitment. The Committee therefore requests the Government, within the context of the current revision of the labour legislation, to amend the legislation so as to extend the protection laid down in section 107(2) of the 1975 Labour Proclamation to the period of recruitment and to report on the progress achieved in this respect.