Final Analysis of Trade Union Law and Amendments to the Trade Union Law
This analysis of the Law on Trade Unions (2016) (TUL) and the Law on Amendments to Articles 3, 17, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, 54, 55 and 59 of the Trade Union Law that was promulgated by Royal Code No. NS/RK/0516/007 dated 17 May 2016 was prepared by CENTRAL with technical support from ACILS between November 2019 to January 2020. The analysis considers requests for further amendments made by trade unions to the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MoLVT) in May and August 2019. The analysis makes recommendations for further amendments to 25 articles in the TUL as well as to Chapter 15 of the law generally in order to bring the TUL into line with international labour standards and particularly C87 and C98. The recommendations for each Article are listed below. Please view the relevant section for each Article in this analysis for reasoning behind each of the recommendations.
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