Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2025, published 114th ILC session (2026)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Comoros (Ratification: 1978)

The Committee notes the observations of the Workers’ Confederation of Comoros (CTTC), received on 26 July 2025, relating to matters examined by the Committee in the present observation, and requests the Government to provide its comments in this regard. The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report does not respond to the questions it has been asking for many years, nor does it address the matters previously raised by the CTTC concerning allegations of employer pressure against trade union leaders of the CTTC, the Union of Health and Education Workers and a new trade union in a communications enterprise to persuade them to end their trade union activities. The Committee requests the Government to provide information in this regard.

Articles 4 and 6 of the Convention. Promotion of collective bargaining in the private and public sectors (employees of public enterprises and public servants not engaged in the administration of the State). In its previous comments, the Committee noted that, according to the CTTC, collective bargaining was not structured and had no framework at any level, and particularly that joint bodies in the public service had still not been established. The Committee noted that the CTTC in its 2017 observations made particular reference to decrees and implementing orders covering the Higher Council of the Public Service, the Joint Commission and the Medical Commission established to provide a framework for bargaining, but which had still not been signed following their preparation in 2015, thereby opening the way for regulations and measures which were not in conformity with the law to the prejudice of employees of the public service. The Committee notes with concern that, according to the CTTC, the matter has yet to be resolved. The Committee therefore once again urges the Government to take the necessary measures to promote collective bargaining in both the private and the public sectors (employees of public enterprises and public servants not engaged in the administration of the State). Recalling that it can avail itself of the technical assistance of the Office, the Committee requests the Government to indicate any progress made in this regard.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary measures in the near future.

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.