Situations in which a minimum service may be imposed to guarantee the safety of persons and equipment (minimum safety service) (Right to strike)


Description:(CFA: Digest of Decisions 2006)
Subject classification: Freedom of Association
Document:1007
Subject: Freedom of Association, Collective Bargaining, and Industrial Relations
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Situations in which a minimum service may be imposed to guarantee the safety of persons and equipment (minimum safety service)

(See also para. 607)

604. Restrictions on the right to strike in certain sectors to the extent necessary to comply with statutory safety requirements are normal restrictions.

(See the 1996 Digest, para. 554; and 310th Report, Case No. 1931, para. 496.)

605. In one case, the legislation provided that occupational organizations in all branches of activity were obliged to ensure that the staff necessary for the safety of machinery and equipment and the prevention of accidents continued to work, and that disagreements as to the defi nition of “necessary staff” would be settled by an administrative arbitration tribunal. These restrictions on the right to strike were considered to be acceptable.

(See the 1996 Digest, para. 555.)


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