Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2000, publiée 89ème session CIT (2001)

The Committee takes note of the Government’s report for the period ending on 30 June 1999 and the attached documentation. According to the Government, the Confederation of Employers (CONCAMIN) states that it participated, together with the Secretariat of Labour and Social Protection and local authorities, in organizing activities related to the national employment policy, and in setting up several councils and committees on training, occupational safety and health, minimum wage fixing and workers’ share in company earnings. CONCAMIN indicates that it also participated in setting up programmes for the improvement of personnel training and company productivity (CIMO and PROBECAT). The Committee notes from the Government’s report that, according to the view of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), the Secretariat of Labour and Social Welfare (STPS) has sole competence for the Convention, which would seem to suggest that workers are not called on to cooperate in its application. The Committee points out to the Government that the involvement of the social partners in the system of labour administration should not be merely fortuitous and that, pursuant to Article 5 of the Convention, arrangements must be made to secure consultation, cooperation and negotiation between the public authorities and the social partners. Article 6(2)(c) further specifies that the competent bodies within the system of labour administration should, amongst other things, make their services available to employers and workers with a view to promoting, at national, regional and local levels as well as at the level of the different sectors of economic activity, effective consultation and cooperation between public authorities and bodies and employers’ and workers’ organizations and between such organizations. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate how the participation of workers’ and employers’ organizations is promoted by the competent bodies of the labour administration system.