Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1995, publiée 83ème session CIT (1996)

The Committee has noted the Government's second report and in particular the information concerning the application of Article 2 of the Convention. It requests the Government to supply further information on the following points.

Article 3. The Committee notes the indications in the report that CODEFAT, the tripartite council that administers the money pertaining to the Worker Support Fund (FAT) has begun to monitor the records concerning the Annual Report of Social Information (RAIS) and Act No. 4923/65. It asks the Government to supply more detailed information on CODEFAT, including information on its composition, and its role in designing or revising the concepts, definitions and methodology used with regard to statistics covered by the Convention.

Article 5. As regards the time-lag between the reference year of the data and their publication in RAIS or their transmission to the ILO, on which the Committee commented in its last request in relation with Articles 9 and 10, it notes the Government's explanations including factors inherent to the source of data (administrative reports). The Committee nevertheless draws the Government's attention to the requirement under Article 5 to communicate to the ILO the published statistics, as soon as practicable, in particular concerning the statistics of the economically active population, etc. (Article 7), and the 1990 census results (Article 8).

Article 9, paragraph 1. The Committee again asks the Government to indicate any measures taken or envisaged to compile and publish current statistics not only of average earnings but also of hours of work (hours actually worked or hours paid for) in accordance with this Article.

Article 9, paragraph 2. With reference to its previous requests, the Committee notes the information on the definition of "contractual wages". As to the statistics of normal hours of work, the Committee notes the Government's indication in its report that the Ministry of Labour plans to create a Working Group to study the possibility of including such statistics in RAIS. Please provide information on any further progress made in this regard.

Article 10. The Committee notes that statistics of wage distribution (data on distribution of employees by income group) are compiled and published. It again asks the Government to indicate any measures taken or envisaged to compile and publish statistics of wage structure including data on the composition of earnings (such as basic pay, premium pay for overtime, remuneration for time not worked and bonuses and gratuities), and of hours of work (actually worked or paid for).

Article 13. Please indicate whether the Household Income and Expenditure Survey planned for 1992-93 has taken place. If so, please communicate the published statistics and the methodological information to the ILO in accordance with Articles 5 and 6. If the survey has not yet taken place, please state when it is planned to conduct it.

Article 15. The Committee notes with interest the recent efforts to improve the strike information system (SIGREV). However, it asks the Government to indicate how the representative organizations of employers and workers were consulted in the process of such revisions (in accordance with Article 3). Please indicate whether these statistics are published by the national authorities and, if so, please supply the reference information (Article 5). Please also communicate to the ILO detailed methodological information concerning the SIGREV including the recent changes, particularly with respect to the source of data, the scope and coverage of the statistics, the methods of data collection and the responsible agencies/organizations (Article 6).

Article 16, paragraph 4. The Committee would again draw the Government's attention to the requirement under this provision to indicate law and practice concerning the Articles of Part II in respect of which obligations have not been accepted (i.e. Articles 11 and 14 in the case of Brazil). As regards statistics of occupational injuries (Article 14), it would be grateful if the Government would comment on the validity of the data on work accidents ("acidentes do trabalho"), collected and compiled by the INPS (National Institute of Social Providence).