Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 1999, publiée 88ème session CIT (2000)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

The Committee has been making comments concerning Parts II and IV of the Convention, asking the Government to make efforts to resume the compilation and publication of statistics of wages and hours of work required under these Parts of the Convention. It requests the Government to continue to provide information on any progress made in this respect, especially following the above-mentioned technical assistance provided by the Office and the participation of officials from Barbados in the Subregional Workshop on the Development of a Wage Statistics Programme for the Caribbean (November 1996). The Committee also draws the Government's attention, as it did in its general observation of 1988, to Convention No. 160 concerning labour statistics adopted in 1985 and which revised the present Convention. The Committee recalls the "principles of flexibility and gradualism" of Convention No. 160, and would like to invite the Government to give consideration to the possibility of ratifying Convention No. 160.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.