Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Compilation of the required statistics. The Committee notes the steps taken to carry out an enhanced quarterly Survey of Employment, Earnings and Hours (SEEH), as well as a new annual Survey of Labour Cost and Occupational Wage Rates. It hopes that once these surveys have been improved, to increase the response rate the Government will be able to compile, publish and transmit to the ILO the statistics required under Parts II and IV of the Convention.

Prospects for the ratification of Convention No. 160. Referring to its previous comments on this subject, the Committee notes with interest that the ratification of Convention No. 160 is currently being considered and that the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) and the Barbados Employers’ Confederation (BEC) have expressed their support for its ratification.