Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1996, published 85th ILC session (1997)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Niger (Ratification: 1961)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report. Article 3 of the Convention. With reference to its previous comments on the need to amend the legislation which restricted the right to access to trade union office to Nigerian nationals (sections 6 and 25 of the 1962 Labour Code), the Committee notes with satisfaction that section 178 of the Labour Code as amended by Order No. 96-039 of 29 June 1996 extends the right to exercise trade union office to foreign workers who have resided lawfully in the territory of Niger for three years, or less for the citizens of States which have concluded reciprocal agreements on trade unions.