Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 1997, publiée 86ème session CIT (1998)

Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes with interest that an advisory mission of the ILO concerning labour statistics visited Barbados in November 1996, according to the suggestion of the Committee.

The Committee has been making comments concerning Parts II and IV of the Convention, asking the Government to make efforts to resume the compilation and publication of statistics of wages and hours of work required under these Parts of the Convention. It requests the Government to continue to provide information on any progress made in this respect, especially following the above-mentioned technical assistance provided by the Office and the participation of officials from Barbados in the Subregional Workshop on the Development of a Wage Statistics Programme for the Caribbean (November 1996).

The Committee also draws the Government's attention, as it did in its general observation of 1988, to Convention No. 160 concerning labour statistics adopted in 1985 and which revised the present Convention. The Committee recalls the "principles of flexibility and gradualism" of Convention No. 160, and would like to invite the Government to give consideration to the possibility of ratifying Convention No. 160.