Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Central African Republic (Ratification: 2006)

Consultation procedures and tripartite consultations required by the Convention. The Committee notes the Government’s first report on the application of the Convention, received in June 2008. The Government indicates that no procedures have been established for tripartite consultations. The Committee refers to Article 2 of the Convention and invites the Government to establish, with the participation of the social partners, procedures which ensure the holding of effective consultations on the matters relating to the activities of the Organization set out in Article 5, paragraph 1. The Government is also requested to ensure that employers and workers are represented on an equal footing on bodies in which such consultations are held (Article 3, paragraph 2). The Government indicates in its report that when a Convention adopted by the International Labour Conference is transmitted to the Government in accordance with article 19 of the Constitution, employers’ and workers’ organizations are consulted to seek their opinion concerning ratification. The Committee refers to the observations that it has been making for many years on the failure to submit the instruments adopted by the Conference to the National Assembly and it hopes that the Government’s next report will contain relevant information on the prior tripartite consultations held on this subject (Article 5, paragraph 1(b)). The Committee also invites the Government to provide detailed information in its next report on the content and outcome of the tripartite consultations held on each of the other matters relating to international labour standards covered by Article 5, paragraph 1.

Administrative support. Financing of training. The Committee requests the Government to provide information in its next report on the manner in which it intends to assume responsibility for the administrative support of the consultation procedures covered by the Convention (Article 4, paragraph 1). The Committee hopes that the Government will report on the arrangements made, possibly with ILO assistance, for the financing of any necessary training of participants in consultation procedures (Article 4, paragraph 2).