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

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Saint Kitts and Nevis (Ratification: 2000)

Article 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. In reply to the previous comments, the Government indicates in its report that the National Tripartite Committee on Labour Standards was officially institutionalized in July 2013. The Government adds that the National Tripartite Committee met a total of 30 times over the past three years mainly to consult on the draft Labour Code. The Committee notes from the report that discussions within the National Tripartite Committee have also included questions arising out of reports to be made under article 22 of the ILO Constitution (Article 5(1)(d) of the Convention) and the attendance at the 104th Session (June 2015) of the International Labour Conference. The Committee requests the Government to provide specific information on the content and outcome of the consultations held within the National Tripartite Committee on Labour Standards concerning matters covered by the Convention, including consultations on government replies to questionnaires concerning items on the agenda of the International Labour Conference and government comments on proposed texts to be discussed by the Conference; the proposals to be made to the National Assembly in connection with the submission of instruments adopted by the Conference; and the re-examination of unratified Conventions and of Recommendations to which effect has not yet been given.