The special procedures, that is, representations, complaints and the special procedure for complaints regarding freedom of association through the Freedom of Association Committee, allow for the examination of violations on the basis of a submission of a representation or a complaint. [...] The cells of the column of weights are then multiplied by corresponding cells of the binary coding column, and summing across the cells of the resultant column yields a weighted non-normalized score for any given country and year. [...] In terms of coding, this means that – both for workers and employers - the direct coding of “General prohibition of the right to establish and join organizations” in law automatically triggers the coding of “General prohibition of the development of independent organizations” in practice; the direct coding of “General prohibition of the right to collective bargaining” in law automatically triggers. [...] 87 and 98 and the related body of comments of the ILO supervisory bodies.5 Given that the ILO supervisory system is also guided by these definitions, this facilitates the coding itself given the heavy reliance on ILO textual sources produced by the supervisory system. [...] Adjustments (ADJUSTMENT) 5 The related body of comments of the ILO supervisory bodies are: Digest of Decisions and Principles of the Freedom of Association Committee of the Governing Body of the ILO (ILO, 2006); Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining: General Survey of the Reports on the Freedom of Association and the Right to Organise Convention (No.
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