Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2000, publiée 89ème session CIT (2001)

In its previous comments concerning Parts II and IV of the Convention, the Committee asked 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, and to continue to provide information on any progress made in this respect, especially following the 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). Noting the Government’s indication in its report that the Statistical Department is in the process of improving the response rate and coverage of statistics on employment and earnings, the Committee again requests the Government to provide more information on the abovementioned points.

The Committee again draws the Government’s attention, as it did in its general observation of 1988 and general direct request of 1999, to Convention No. 160 concerning labour statistics, adopted in 1985, 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.