Decision on the fifteenth item on the agenda: Report of the Officers of the Governing Body. Complaint concerning non-observance by Guatemala of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), made by delegates to the 101st Session (2012) of the International Labour Conference under article 26 of the ILO Constitution

Record of decisions | 15 November 2012

Decision on the fifteenth item on the agenda: Report of the Officers of the Governing Body

Complaint concerning non-observance by Guatemala of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), made by delegates to the 101st Session (2012) of the International Labour Conference under article 26 of the ILO Constitution

The Governing Body, on the recommendation of its Officers:

(a) requested that the Director-General transmit the complaint to the Government;

(b) invited the Office to obtain relevant information from the Government and employers’ and workers’ organizations of Guatemala, including the Memorandum of Understanding signed on 10 October 2012 and the report of the high-level mission conducted in May 2011, and to report to the Governing Body at its 317th Session (March 2013); and

(c) placed this issue on the agenda of its 317th Session in order to decide whether further action on the complaint is required in the light of the information provided by the Office in connection with paragraph (b).

(Document GB.316/INS/15/2, paragraph 8.)