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The Committee notes the detailed information provided by the Government in the report received in August 2007 in relation to its 2002 direct request. It again asks the Government to provide relevant updated information on the measures taken to ensure that appropriate safety, health, welfare and vocational training provisions apply to dockworkers (Article 6 of the Convention) including updated information on the legislative measures concerning the application of the Convention. Please also supply data on the numbers of different categories of stevedoring workers – permanent employees, guaranteed wage employees, supplementary employees – and on any measures taken at the tripartite level in improving the efficiency of work in ports (Part V of the report form).
The Committee notes the Government’s report and the information sent in reply to its previous direct request on the effect given to Articles 2, 3 and 4 of the Convention. The Committee notes that, according to the information supplied by the Government, most stevedoring employees are ongoing employees, but that the major stevedores also employ casual employees and guaranteed wage employees. Whilst the guaranteed wage employees are specific to the stevedoring sector and are provided with minimum regular payments conditional upon making themselves available for a certain number of allocated shifts, neither they nor the casual employees have guarantees of minimum periods of employment or minimum income. The Committee asks the Government to include with its next report the text of awards laying down recruitment and working conditions for these two categories of stevedores.
Part V of the report form. The Committee asks the Government in its next report to provide information on the practical application of the Convention. It would appreciate in particular any available information on the numbers of each of the abovementioned categories (ongoing employees, casual employees and guaranteed wage employees), on changes in these numbers and on any measures taken to prevent or minimize detrimental effects of any changes. Please also continue to provide information on the activities of the Maritime Industry Finance Company Ltd. (MIFCo).
The Committee notes the Government's report for the period up to June 1997 and requests it to provide additional information on the following points:
Article 2, paragraph 2, of the Convention. Recalling that the purpose of this Article is, as far as possible, to assure for dockworkers permanent or regular employment and, in any case, minimum periods of employment or a minimum income, in a manner and to an extent depending on the economic and social situation of the country and port concerned, the Committee requests the Government to provide detailed information on conditions of employment for dockworkers recruited on a casual basis and specifically on any means deployed to assure workers in this category minimum periods of employment or a minimum income, in accordance with this provision.
Articles 3 and 4. Noting the Government's reply with regard to these Articles of the Convention, the Committee requests it to describe in detail the measures envisaged for preventing or minimizing the detrimental effects on dockworkers of any necessary reductions in the strength of a register. The Government is also asked to indicate the criteria and procedures laid down for the implementation of these measures, as requested in the report form for Article 4, paragraph 2, of the Convention.