Obligation to participate in ballots (Right of organizations to elect their representatives in full freedom)


Description:(CFA: Digest of Decisions 2006)
Subject classification: Freedom of Association
Document:0704
Subject: Freedom of Association, Collective Bargaining, and Industrial Relations
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Obligation to participate in ballots

427. The obligation for the organization’s members to vote should be left to the unions’ rules and not imposed by law.

(See the 1996 Digest, para. 390.)

428. A law which imposes fines on workers who do not participate in trade union elections is not in conformity with the provisions of Convention No. 87.

(See the 1996 Digest, para. 391.)
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