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

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Pakistan (Ratification: 1994)

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Article 5(1) of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. The Committee takes note the Government’s indication that between 2018 and 2022, tripartite consultations were held through the Federal Tripartite Consultative Committee (FTCC) and the Provincial Tripartite Consultation Committees (PTCC). The FTCC held eight meetings discussion regarding: (i) submission of the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) and its Recommendation, 2019 (No. 206), adopted by the International Labour Conference during its 108th Session, to the competent authority; (ii) the possibility of ratifying the following instruments: the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No 176), the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No 155), the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187), the Maritime Labour convention, 2006 (MLC), the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), the Protocol of 1995 to the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947, the Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129), and the Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102); (iii) reports on the following unratified Conventions: the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (disabled persons) convention, 1983 (No. 159), the Home Work Convention, 1996 (No. 177), the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled persons) Recommendation, 1983 (No. 168), the Employment Policy (Supplementary Provisions) Recommendation, 1994 (No. 169), the Home Work Recommendation, 1996 (No. 184), the Employment Relationship Recommendation, 2006 (No. 198), and the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204); (iv); the Committee’s comments from 2020 to Pakistan on ratified Conventions; (v) challenges posed by the implementation of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) especially in Banking sector and Export Processing Zones Authority (EPZA); (vi) issues relating to the activities of the ILO, such as ILO Centenary Celebrations 2019 (Future of Work Initiative) and Better Work Programme Prospects and Challenges from Business Perspective; and (vii) other matters related to labour legislation and social and economic policies; and the extension of social security benefits to the families of workers residing in other provinces. The Government also informs that the PTCC discussed matters related to labour legislation and social and economic policies, including, the draft Bill of the Gilgit Baltistan Industrial Relation Act; the Balochistan Occupational Safety and Health Law; home based workers law and policy; legislative amendments in favour of women to improve the female labour participation rate; the draft of Implementation Framework for Balochistan under the National Labour Protection Framework (NLPF); and issues relating to the activities of the ILO, such as the Decent Work Country Programme-III. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide detailed information on the frequency, as well as the outcome of tripartite consultations held during the reporting period on all matters concerning international labour standards covered by Article 5 of the Convention. The Committee also asks the Government to provide information on the consultations carried out pursuant to the Convention as regards reports to be presented on the application of ratified Conventions (Article 5(1)(d)); and potential proposals for the denunciation of ratified Conventions (Article 5(1)(e)), including in relation to the recommendations made by the Governing Body in the context of the Standards Review Mechanism.