E/C.12/MNE/CO/1 contracts in spite of the requirements of the Labour Act in this regard. It also expresses concern at the inadequate capacity of the Directorate for Inspection Affairs, including the Labour Inspectorate, to regularize the informal economy, to sanction employers who violate the Labour Act, and to prevent occupational accidents and diseases (arts. 6 and 7). The Committee urges the State party to take effective measures to ensure that private companies respect their obligations to guarantee the right of workers to remuneration and regular payment of their social and health contributions, as well as their right to an indefinite contract as stipulated in the Labour Act. The State party should also increase the resources and the capacity of the Directorate for Inspection Affairs, including the Labour Inspectorate, to regularize the informal economy and to effectively ensure just and favourable conditions at work through the implementation of both preventive and punitive measures. Trade union rights 15. The Committee expresses concern at reports of discriminatory acts against trade union representatives. It is also concerned at restrictions on the right to strike for public sector employees who do not provide “essential services”, or services which, if interrupted, would endanger the life, personal safety or health of the whole of or a part of the population (art. 8). The Committee calls upon the State party to ensure that workers in both the private and public sectors enjoy their right to freely form and join trade unions. While noting the 2013 draft law on strikes, the Committee recommends that the State party ensure that public sector employees who do not provide essential services are entitled to their right to strike in accordance with article 8 of the Covenant and ILO Convention No. 87 concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise (1948). Social security 16. While welcoming the adoption in May 2013 of the Law on Social and Child Protection, the Committee is concerned at the lack of capacity of State institutions to implement the law effectively. It also notes with concern that social assistance benefits, including for unemployed persons, older persons and persons with disabilities, are insufficient to ensure an adequate standard of living for the persons concerned and their families (art. 9). The Committee calls upon the State party to: (a) Ensure the effective implementation of the Law on Social and Child Protection in practice, including by increasing the capacity of and coordination among State institutions; (b) Increase social assistance benefits, taking into account the Committee’s general comment No. 19 (2007) on the right to social security, in order to ensure that all individuals and families throughout the State party, including unemployed persons, older persons and persons with disabilities, enjoy an adequate standard of living; (c) Provide, in its next periodic report, information on the extent of social security coverage, disaggregated inter alia by sex, urban/rural population, residency status and national or ethnic origin. 5