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

Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971 (No. 135) - Rwanda (Ratification: 1988)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

Article 4 of the Convention. The Committee recalls that by virtue of section 160 of the Labour Code, the Minister of Labour shall, by an order made on the advice of the Labour Advisory Board, prescribe, inter alia, the minimum number of workers above which, and the category of establishments in which, the election of staff representatives shall be compulsory; the number of representatives and their distribution among the various occupations; the procedure of elections; the conditions to be fulfilled by electors and candidates for election. Regretting that the Government confines itself to indicating in its report that a study concerning such an order is still being carried out, the Committee expresses the firm hope that the Government will be able to supply information on the results of this study in its next report and that it will forward the text of any order which is adopted under section 160 of the Labour Code.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.