Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2023, published 112nd ILC session (2024)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Barbados (Ratification: 1983)

The Committee notes with deep concern that the Government’s report has not been received. It expects that the next report will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comments. The Committee informs the Government that, if it has not supplied replies to the points raised by 1 September 2024, then it may proceed with the examination of the application of the Convention on the basis of the information at its disposal at its next session.

Repetition

Article 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. The Government indicates in its report that the most recent Standing Tripartite Committee was appointed for a period of three years, effective from 27 October 2014. The Committee notes with interest the minutes of the Standing Tripartite Committee meetings convened on 1 September 2015 and 28 September 2016. In 2015, the Standing Tripartite Committee discussed and completed the report form for the 2015 General Survey concerning the right of association and rural workers’ organizations instruments, whereas in 2016, it discussed completion of the report form for the 2017 General Survey concerning the occupational safety and health instruments, as well as the contents of the reports on ratified Conventions to be made to the ILO in 2015 and 2016, as recorded in the minutes of the meetings respectively convened on 1 September 2015 and 28 September 2016. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information, including minutes of the Standing Tripartite Committee meetings, on the content and outcome of tripartite consultations held on all matters concerning international labour standards covered by the Convention, particularly with regard to the submission to the competent authorities of Conventions and Recommendations (Article 5(1)(b)), and the re-examination of unratified Conventions and Recommendations to which effect has not yet been given (Article 5(1)(c)).