Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 83rd ILC session (1996)

The Committee notes the Government's report to the effect that there has been no change since the previous report in the application of the Convention. The Committee hopes that the draft Industrial Relations Act and Employment Act will be adopted in the near future and that the definitive texts will be transmitted rapidly to the Office.

The Committee notes that since 1983 the Government has not provided any information, in any of its successive reports, on the consultations held during the periods covered on the matters enumerated in Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Convention.

The Committee wishes to emphasize the particular importance that it attaches to the regular follow-up of the application of this fundamental provision, particularly by means of the information that should be provided by the Government in each of its reports, in accordance with the report form. The Committee trusts that, following the establishment of the new Labour Advisory Board, the Government will henceforth be in a position to supply this information regularly on these consultations which, under paragraph 2 above, should be held at least once a year.

The Government announced in its report received by the Office on 26 November 1986 that the annual report on the functioning of the consultation procedures provided for in Article 6 would be included in the annual reports of the Department of Labour and it attached to its 1988 report a copy of the above report, which did not contain the information that was expected. The Committee notes that no other report on the functioning of these procedures has reached the Office since then. It would be grateful if the Government would indicate the reasons for the interruption in the communication of such reports. Furthermore, it requests the Government, if it has not yet done so, to consult the representative organizations, as required by this Article, on the need to issue the report, and to provide information on these consultations in its next report.

Finally, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate, as requested in point VI of the report form, whether any observations have been received from the representative organizations to which copies of each report on the application of the Convention are communicated in accordance with article 23, paragraph 2, of the Constitution of the ILO.