Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Convention concerning Statistics of Wages and Hours of Work, 1938 (No. 63) - Barbados (Ratification: 1967)

Other comments on C063

Observation

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Parts I, II and IV of the Convention. Statistics relating to wages and hours of work. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that no results have been published by the Barbados Statistical Service (BSS) in relation to the Quarterly Survey of Employment, Earnings and Hours (SEEH) of the Survey of Labour Costs and Wage Rates. As regards the exclusion of Part III of the Convention, the Committee also notes the Government’s reference to the absence of progress towards its application thereof. Moreover, the Committee notes that the Government transmitted with its report a copy of the respective Statistical Bulletin on the Continuous Household Labour Force Sample Survey for all four quarters of 2014. The Committee notes that statistics on hours of work, wages and earnings of employees are not disseminated or reported directly to the ILO Department of Statistics, despite being collected and produced by the above-referred Survey. Additionally, the statistical information concerning average earnings and hours actually worked in mining and manufacturing industries (Part II) and wages and hours of work in agriculture (Part IV) does not appear to be disseminated through the BSS website, nor is it directly submitted to the ILO Department of Statistics. The Committee requests that the Government ensure the regular communication of updated statistical and methodological information on wages or earnings and hours of work.

The Committee notes the recommendations of the Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group and the corresponding decision of the Governing Body at its 328th Session in October–November 2016 (GB.328/LILS/2/1) calling upon the Office to commence follow-up with member States that are still bound by the Convention, encouraging them to ratify the Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160), as the most up-to-date instrument in this area, and resulting in the automatic denunciation of Convention No. 63. The Committee reminds the Government of the availability of ILO technical assistance in this regards.