Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Spain (Ratification: 1984)

The Committee notes the observations made by the General Union of Workers (UGT), in a communication addressed to the ILO in January 2000 and transmitted to the Government, on the failure of the latter to organize the meeting with the social partners, that it had requested, to study the establishment of more appropriate consultation procedures to give effect to the Convention. The UGT indicates that the comments it has been making for many years on application of the Convention remain unchanged. The Committee requests the Government to make any comment it deems appropriate in reply to these observations.

The Committee recalls that in its previous observation it noted that the Government undertook to consult the social partners in order to find an appropriate solution to the practical problems of application raised by the UGT and the Trade Union Federation of Workers’ Commissions (CC.OO.). The Committee expresses the hope that the Government’s next report would supply information on real progress achieved in establishing an effective consultation procedure, as required by Article 2 of the Convention, to the satisfaction of all parties concerned.