Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Benin (Ratification: 2001)

Effective tripartite consultations required by the Convention. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes with interest that the ratification of the Collective Bargaining Convention, 1981 (No. 154), and the Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183), was registered on 10 January 2012. The Government also indicates, in the report received in September 2013, that there is an institutional framework for tripartite consultation within which discussions take place on labour-related issues. The Government describes the various tripartite consultations held on international labour standards and indicates that it is planned to consider the possibility, during forthcoming sessions of the National Labour Council, of ratifying certain Conventions, including the Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171). The Committee hopes that the Government and social partners will continue to contemplate ratifying other important Conventions, such as the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), and the Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129), which have been identified as governance Conventions (Article 5(1)(c) of the Convention). It invites the Government to continue to supply information on the consultations held during the period covered by the next report on matters relating to international labour standards listed in Article 5(1) of the Convention.