Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee notes the Government’s report received in October 2004, and the information elements it contains in reply to its previous request. The Committee invites the Government to supply additional information in its next report on the following points.

1. Consultation with organizations of employers and workers. Article 3 of the Convention. Please describe how representative organizations of employers and workers are consulted in formulating or revising the concepts, definitions and methodology used in preparing the statistics referred to in the Convention. Please describe the role of CODEFAT in this respect.

2. Communication of statistics to the ILO. Article 5. Referring to its previous requests, the Committee again asks the Government to communicate to the Office, in response to the questionnaires for the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, data derived from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) on unemployment by branch of activity on the basis of the International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (ISIC) and by occupation on the basis of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO), or to indicate any obstacle to communication of this data. In addition, the Committee asks the Government to transmit to the Office the results of the 2002–03 survey on household income and expenditure.

3. Communication to the ILO of the methodology used. Article 6(b). Please communicate to the Office a detailed description of the methodology used in the 2000 population census.

4. Wage structure and distribution. Article 10. Referring to its repeated previous requests, the Committee once again asks the Government to indicate the measures taken or envisaged to compile and publish statistics of wage structure including detailed data on the composition of earnings (basic pay, overtime pay, remuneration for time not worked and bonuses and gratuities), and of average hours of work (actually worked or paid).

5. Industrial disputes. Article 15. Referring to its previous requests, the Committee once again asks the Government to supply detailed information on any measures taken or envisaged to compile statistics on labour disputes throughout the country and for all branches of economic activity.

6. Obligations not accepted. Article 16, paragraph 4. The Committee notes that statistics on the number of manufacturing industry wage earners and their pay taken from the Annual Industrial Survey are regularly transmitted to the Office. It asks the Government to indicate whether it envisages extending the compilation of such statistics to other important branches of economic activity (Article 11). Referring to its previous request, the Committee also asks the Government to indicate whether new measures are envisaged to extend statistical coverage on occupational injuries so as to be representative of the country as a whole (Article 14).