Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2015, published 105th ILC session (2016)

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

Articles 2 and 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in reply to the previous comments, and the observations of the Trade Union Confederation of Malagasy Revolutionary Workers (FISEMARE), received in September 2014. The Government indicates that the representatives of employers and workers in the National Labour Council (CNT) will be determined by means of an order in accordance with Decree No. 2011-490 of 6 September 2011 on trade union organizations and representativeness. The Committee notes that, while awaiting that order, meetings have been organized by the Ministry of Labour to facilitate the application in practice of Articles 2, 3 and 5 of the Convention. It notes with interest that it has been agreed by common accord with workers’ and employers’ organizations that all reports to be submitted to the Office under articles 19 and 22 of the ILO Constitution will be communicated to the social partners; it will then be their responsibility to organize themselves for the inclusion of their observations; and the social partners may, where necessary, send their observations directly to the Office. The Committee requests the Government to provide detailed information on the manner in which the representatives of employers and workers have been chosen for the purposes of the procedures provided for in the Convention (Article 3). It also requests the Government to provide information on the subjects and outcome of the tripartite consultations held on each of the items set out in Article 5(1).