Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2006, publiée 96ème session CIT (2007)

Convention (n° 144) sur les consultations tripartites relatives aux normes internationales du travail, 1976 - Lesotho (Ratification: 1998)

Tripartite consultations required by the Convention. The Committee notes the Government’s statement, made in its report received in June 2006, on the importance given by the Ministry of Employment and Labour to social dialogue and justifying the establishment of various tripartite bodies. The Committee notes, however, the Government’s regret that none of the consultations envisaged in Articles 5 and 6 of the Convention have taken place. The Government indicates that these problems will be included on the agenda of the next meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Labour (NACOLA), scheduled for 20 July 2006. The Committee hopes that in its next report the Government will be able to provide precise information on the tripartite consultations held within the NACOLA with regard to each of the matters relating to international labour standards (Article 5, paragraph 1), and on the working of consultative procedures (Article 6). The Committee refers to its previous comments and recalls once again that the Governing Body invited the States parties to the Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1939 (No. 64), and to the Penal Sanctions (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1939 (No. 65), to ratify the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), while denouncing Conventions Nos. 64 and 65. Furthermore, the States parties to the Underground Work (Women) Convention, 1935 (No. 45), are invited to ratify the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No. 176). The Committee invites the Government to provide full information on the tripartite consultations that have taken place on the re-examination of unratified Conventions (Article 5, paragraph 1(c)).