Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Madagascar (Ratification: 1997)

Articles 2 and 5(1) of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations required by the Convention. The Committee notes the indications provided by the Government in a report received in October 2010. The Government indicates that considerable efforts have been made in the context of tripartite consultation and that the role of the social partners in the implementation of economic and social policies is now beginning to increase but that, as the crisis situation in the country has not yet been resolved, it is not possible to provide further information. Under these conditions, the Committee invites the Government and the social partners to promote and strengthen tripartism and social dialogue on the issues relating to international labour standards covered by the Convention. In this respect, it recalls that, in accordance with the 2008 Social Justice Declaration, Convention No. 144 is one of the instruments that is most significant from the viewpoint of governance. The Committee requests the Government to provide updated and detailed information in its next report on the manner in which the representatives of employers and workers are selected for the purposes of the procedures covered by the Convention (Article 3 of the Convention) and on the content and outcome of the tripartite consultations undertaken on each of the matters covered by Article 5(1).