Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which reads as follows:

In its previous comments, the Committee recalled that the Convention was applied by the revised administrative instructions of 29 December 1962 and asked the Government to state whether these instructions were still in force and, if so, whether the contracts awarded by public authorities in accordance with these instructions contained the clauses provided for in paragraph 5 of the said instructions.

The Committee notes that the Government repeats in its report that collective bargaining in Bermuda has become sufficiently widespread to render the provisions of the Convention inappropriate.

The Committee would point out that by declaring the Convention applicable to Bermuda, the Government undertook to ensure the inclusion of appropriate labour clauses in public contracts in accordance with the provisions of the Convention. It therefore repeats its request that the Government should state whether the above-mentioned instructions of 1962 are still in force. Please also provide a sample of public contracts containing labour clauses.