Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1997, published 86th ILC session (1998)

Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971 (No. 135) - Iraq (Ratification: 1972)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government's report still does not reply to the previous direct requests for more detailed information on the application of Article 2 of the Convention, and in particular that it does not contain copies of any agreements concluded between the workers' and the employers' organizations to which the Government had referred in its previous report and which would provide members of trade union committees with the facilities necessary for carrying out trade union functions.

In these circumstances, the Committee is bound once again to draw the Government's attention to the terms of Article 2, under which facilities must be afforded in the enterprise to workers' representatives (such as the necessary time off to attend meetings, training courses and trade union seminars, conferences and congresses; access to workplaces when necessary; space to post trade union notices, etc., as indicated in Chapter IV of the Workers' Representatives Recommendation, 1971 (No. 143)).

The Committee is bound to request the Government once again to provide with its next report the texts of any agreements concluded between trade unions and employers which afford the above facilities to workers' representatives in enterprises, as well as any other relevant information on the practical application of Article 2.