Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971 (No. 135) - Sri Lanka (Ratification: 1976)

The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its report.

Article 3 of the Convention. A report on employment relations in export processing zones attached to the Government's report for Convention No. 98 states that "representatives of trade unions did not have free access to the zones, being bonded areas, and the investors seem to refuse to recognize and deal with trade unions". The Committee recalls that access to the undertakings for workers' representatives is a basic facility in order to enable them to carry out their functions promptly and efficiently. The Committee requests the Government to indicate whether trade union representatives are able to have access to export processing zones and if this right is guaranteed by law.