Sect.  5,  Rights of trade unions and employers' organizations.

Every organization has the right to -

(c) take part in the formation, and become a member, or any federation of trade unions or employers' organizations and participate in its lawful activities;

(d) affiliate to and participate in the affairs of international workers' or employers' organizations and to receive financial and other assistance from them.

[Malawi, Labour Relations Act, 1996]

Sect. 2. Right to Unite in Trade Unions

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(5) Trade unions shall have the right to set up their own amalgamations (associations) according to the sectoral, territorial or other feature taking professional specifics into account, such as all amalgamations (associations) of trade unions, interregional amalgamations (associations) of trade unions, and territorial amalgamations (associations) of trade union organizations.  Trade unions and their amalgamations (associations) shall have the right to cooperate with trade unions of other states, to enter into international trade union and other amalgamations and organizations, and to conclude treaties and agreements with them.

[Russian Federation, Federal Act (No. 10-FZ) on Trade Unions, their rights and guarantees of their activity, 12 January 1996]

Sec. 8.  Rights of trade unions and employers' organizations.   Every trade union and every employers' organization has the right

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(c) to participate in forming a federation of trade unions or a federation of employers' organizations;

(d) to join a federation of trade unions or a federation of employers' organizations, subject to its constitution, and to participate in its lawful activities;

(e) to affiliate with, and participate in the affairs of, any international workers' organization, or international employers' organization, or the International Labour Organization, and contribute to, or receive financial assistance from, those organizations.

[South Africa, Labour Relations Act, 1995 (amended by the Labour Relations Amendment Act, 2002)]

Sect. 55. 1. Properly established occupational trade unions may cooperate freely within the framework of their statutory objective.

They may form themselves into federations under any denomination whatsoever.

Sect. 55. 2. The provisions of sections 51.2, 51.4, 51.5, 51.6 and 51.8 shall be applicable to federations of trade unions which shall notify, under the conditions set out in section 51.4, the statutory name and headquarters of the trade unions of which they are comprised. Their rules shall determine the conditions under which the trade unions members of the federation are represented on the executive board and in general assemblies.

Sect. 55. 3. Federations of trade unions shall enjoy all the rights conferred upon occupational trade unions under the present Title.

[Côte d'Ivoire, Labour Code, 1995]

Section 383. Trade unions may establish municipal, provincial regional or national federations.

These may in turn establish confederations with the agreement of two thirds of their members congregated in a general assembly.

Section 384. The constitutive minutes of federations and confederations of trade unions must include the names and addresses of the trade unions that make it up.

Its statutes must express the way in which trade unions are represented before the general assemblies of their federations and confederations and the details of its organization and operation.

[Dominican Republic, Labour Code, 1992]