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Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body
Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body
- 107. With respect to this case, the Committee had requested the Government to: (1) keep it informed of the outcome of the lawsuit by the Minister of Education against the official, Nelson Edgardo Cálix for slander, libel and defamation; (2) indicate whether, by virtue of the non-reprisal clause established in the 10 July 2004 agreement between the Government and the complainant organizations, and specifically the clauses relating to wages and the deduction of trade union dues, the sanctions (fines) against the president of COPEMH and against COPEMH and COPRUMH, and the application to have these organizations’ legal personality suspended, had been abandoned or set aside. At its meeting in November 2005, the Committee: (i) noted with interest that the authorities had abandoned the lawsuit intended to suspend the legal personality of the complainant organizations and requested the Government to keep it informed of any new decision in relation to this case; and (ii) invited the Government and the trade union organizations to find a negotiated solution to the unresolved issues before the judicial authority, based on the non-reprisal clause arising out of the conciliation settlement of 10 July 2004 and on Conventions Nos. 87 and 98 which have been ratified by Honduras and apply fully to teaching staff so that the complainant organizations should be able to represent their members without any problem whatsoever; the Committee requested the Government to keep it informed in this respect [see 338th Report, para. 175].
- 108. In a communication dated 6 January 2006, the Government reiterated the information it had sent on 2 August 2005 of which due note was taken when the case was examined in November 2005.
- 109. In these circumstances, the Committee calls on the Government to send the information that has been requested.
