Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Ecuador (Ratification: 1979)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in response to its previous direct request. It notes that the Government continues to encounter serious difficulties in the application of this Convention owing to economic circumstances. The Committee notes further the remarks of the Government in its report that practical circumstances, including the inability to initiate a dialogue between representatives of the Government and of organisations of employers and workers, impedes the ability of the Government to comply with its obligations under the Convention and, most notably, its obligation to hold the consultations required under Article 5, paragraph 1(c). The information supplied by the Government indicates that, in fact, such consultations have not taken place.

The Committee would like once again to point out that the above provision is intended to establish a continuous process under which non-ratified Conventions and Recommendations are reviewed at least once a year. The Committee again observes that where a programme is established over a certain period of time, representatives of the Government and of organisations of employers and workers have the possibility systematically of examining, in light of the changes which have occurred in national legislation and practice, those instruments which may be of interest for the country.

The Committee trusts that those circumstances invoked by the Government in its present report will not, in future, prevent the holding of "effective" consultations provided for under Article 2 of the Convention.

The Committee, therefore, requests the Government to supply full and detailed information on the consultations that take place during the period covered by the next report on each of the matters set out in Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Convention and, in particular, with regard to point (c) of that paragraph.