Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - REPORT_NO359, March 2011

Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body

1. 96. The Committee last examined this case, which concerns allegations of violations of ILO Conventions in the setting up, composition, and appointment of members of the National Wages/Pay Council (NPC), at its March 2010 meeting. On that occasion, the Committee expressed the hope that the Government and the Trade Union Common Platform (TUCP) would soon find a solution to the current impasse and that the Government would continue to pursue full and frank consultations on ways to improve the NPC, including the basis on which the salary compensation should be decided. Furthermore, the Committee once again requested the Government to provide further information on the Government’s response to the TUCP recommendations that the Government accept or reject in total those recommendations of the NPC that may be decided by consensus and to clarify whether workers might go on strike against an NPC decision should it lack consensus [see 356th Report, paras 86–90].
2. 97. In its communication dated 15 October 2010, the Government states that it has progressively phased out the NPC and, following consultations with the tripartite constituents, has set up a National Tripartite Forum intended to provide advice and make recommendations on industrial and labour issues and on social and economic policy. The Government states that commissions will be set up within the National Tripartite Forum to examine and formulate proposals on issues of economic and social development, the labour market, and job creation, as well as the calculation of annual wages on the basis of the inflation rate. The Government states that it will keep the Committee informed of any new developments as soon as the commission dealing with the question of annual pay is fully operational.
3. 98. The Committee takes note of the information. It requests the Government to provide, as it has indicated its intention to do, detailed information on the establishment and functioning of the commission dealing with the question of annual pay within the National Tripartite Forum. The Committee expects that the TUCP will be fully consulted in this process.