Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Syrian Arab Republic (Ratification: 1960)

Article 3 of the Convention (Right of workers to elect their representatives in full freedom). The Committee notes that section 44(b)/3 of Legislative Decree No. 84 of 1968 stipulates Arab nationality as a condition of eligibility to trade union office.

The Committee notes the Government's desire to amend its legislation to bring it into greater conformity with the Convention by granting trade union rights to all workers, including foreigners, and requests the Government to envisage amending section 44(b)/3 to enable foreign workers who have been legally resident in the country for a reasonable length of time access to trade union office.

The Committee requests the Government to indicate in its next report the measures taken in this respect.