Benin - 2012

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Population: 8,850,000
Capital: Porto Novo
There are serious restrictions on the right to strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike and the authorities have frequently made inflammatory statements against the trade unions, heightening social tensions and prompting protest actions.
ILO Core Conventions Ratified:
29 Forced Labour (1930) 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise (1948) 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining (1949) 100 Equal Remuneration for Work of Equal Value (1951) 105 Abolition of Forced Labour (1957) 111 Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (1958) 138 Minimum Age for Employment (1973) 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)

reported violations - 2012

Murders: none reported
Attempted Murders: none reported
Threats: none reported
Injuries: none reported
Arrests: none reported
Imprisonments: none reported
Dismissals: none reported
Documented violations - actual number of cases may be higher

Background

Outgoing President Boni Yayi, won a second term in the first round of presidential elections in March, despite challenges from the opposition. In ratifying the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Benin took a big step forward towards abolishing the death penalty.
ILO Core Conventions Ratified:
29 Forced Labour (1930) 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise (1948) 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining (1949) 100 Equal Remuneration for Work of Equal Value (1951) 105 Abolition of Forced Labour (1957) 111 Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (1958) 138 Minimum Age for Employment (1973) 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)
Population: 8,850,000
Capital: Porto Novo

reported violations- 2012

Documented violations - actual number of cases may be higher

Trade union rights in law

Although basic trade union rights are guaranteed in the law, excessive restrictions are still in place. To obtain legal recognition recognition The designation by a government agency of a union as the bargaining agent for workers in a given bargaining unit, or acceptance by an employer that its employees can be collectively represented by a union. , unions must deposit their statutes with the competent authorities, or face a fine or prosecution. Workers have the right to bargain collectively, with the exception of merchant shipping employees.

Although the right to strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike is recognised in both the public and private sectors, it is marred with restrictions, including a requirement to announce the length of a strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike in advance. The government also has the right to declare a strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike illegal on specific grounds such as a threat to social peace and order, and can requisition requisition To issue back-to-work orders. civil servants in the event of a strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike .

On 1st October a new law came into force extending the ban on the right to strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike for military personnel and police officers to customs officers and water and forestry workers.

Additional information regarding the legislation
ILO Core Conventions Ratified:
29 Forced Labour (1930) 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise (1948) 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining (1949) 100 Equal Remuneration for Work of Equal Value (1951) 105 Abolition of Forced Labour (1957) 111 Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (1958) 138 Minimum Age for Employment (1973) 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)
Population: 8,850,000
Capital: Porto Novo

reported violations - 2012

Documented violations - actual number of cases may be higher

Violations

Anti-union pronouncements by the Head of State: Faced with social unrest and numerous strikes, the Head of State, Thomas Boni Yayi, has made many inflammatory statements. On 13 June, on the eve of a strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike organised by the Coalition of Public Service Unions (Coalition des organisations syndicales de l’administration publique - COSYNAP), he warned that he aimed to « put an end to disorder » and demanded that ministers list the names of all civil servants who did not report for work. One month later, as stoppages continued in the civil service, the Council of Ministers spoke of “serious dysfunctionality” within the trade unions. It urged them to ensure better governance by electing new leaders, the underlying message being that most leaders were no longer representative of the workers. The Council also urged parliament to speed up their review of the law on strikes. In mid-September, President Yayi spoke of “anarchy in Benin’s trade union movement”. Then on 28 September, as customs officers prepared to strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike in protest at a law which would deny them the right to do so, he made threatening remarks, warning he might requisition requisition To issue back-to-work orders. retired customs officers to replace them.
Police provocation two days in a row : On 29 September the Director General of Customs used force to change the locks on the offices of the striking customs officers to enable the requisitioned retired officers to work there. The strikers decided to suspend their action and returned to work, but were very critical of the use of force. The following day police officers surrounded the trade union headquarters as the national trade union centres gathered there to decide on what to do next in response to the threats to the right to strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike .
ILO Core Conventions Ratified:
29 Forced Labour (1930) 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise (1948) 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining (1949) 100 Equal Remuneration for Work of Equal Value (1951) 105 Abolition of Forced Labour (1957) 111 Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (1958) 138 Minimum Age for Employment (1973) 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)
Population: 8,850,000
Capital: Porto Novo

reported violations - 2012

Documented violations - actual number of cases may be higher
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