Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

Further to its previous comments, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide further information on the following points.

Article 3 of the Convention. The Committee once again requests the Government to indicate whether, under national law or practice, certain activities which come under national labour policy are regulated by recourse to direct negotiation between employers’ and workers’ organizations, without intervention from, but under the control of, labour administration bodies. If so, the Government is requested to indicate the activities in question and to provide a copy of any relevant legislative text or document.

Article 7. The Committee invites the Government to refer, with regard to the meaning of this provision, to paragraphs 131 ff. of its 1997 General Survey on labour administration and to the practical examples quoted in the footnotes, and requests it to indicate, in the light of these clarifications, the cases and the circumstances in which labour administration activities would be carried out in collaboration with other competent bodies, with a view to improving the conditions of work and working life of categories of workers who are not, in law, employed persons, the list mentioned by Article 7 having a purely indicative character. The Government is requested to communicate, if necessary, any relevant text or document.

Article 9. The Committee requests the Government to specify the legal and practical means, illustrated by any relevant document, at the disposal of the Secretariat of State for Labour to ensure that local agencies carry out the activities delegated to them under this Article, in accordance with the national legislation, and that they fulfil the objectives which have been assigned to them.

Article 10. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information on the distribution within the Secretariat of State for Labour and its external departments of the resources allocated by the national budget in the light of its requirements in human resources, training, material means and logistics with a view to the proper performance of its duties.