Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2005, publiée 95ème session CIT (2006)

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 asks the Government to communicate additional information regarding the following points.

Article 3 of the Convention. Referring to its previous comments, the Committee notes the Government’s reply, according to which there do not exist particular activities in the field of its national labour policy as being matters that may be regulated by having recourse to collective negotiations. It observes, however, that sections 35 and 36 of the Law on Trade Unions and Settlement of Labour Relations provide for the extension of collective agreements. In this regard, it recalls its developments on the question contained in paragraphs 57 and 58 of its General Survey of 1997 on labour administration, according to which collective agreements are an important means of creating national labour standards. These standards may supplement legislative and regulatory texts in specific fields, it being understood that they may not lay down standards less stringent than those prescribed by law, or they may also lay down the basic labour standards that the laws and regulations may complete. The Committee also stressed that, although in many countries the negotiation of collective agreements lies within the competence of the social partners, public authorities intervene particularly by extending such agreements to others. In the light of the above developments, the Government is requested to provide information on the manner in which these provisions of the Convention have been given effect in practice.

Article 7. The Government indicates in its report that the functions of the labour administration system are progressively extended to a certain number of categories of persons. In this regard, the Committee notes with interest that, under section 16 of the Law on the Promotion of Vocational Training, the vocational programmes conducted by the Government are also open to full-time tenants and fishermen. The Committee would appreciate receiving information on the application in practice of this legal provision and to keep the Office informed on any future extension of the functions of the system of labour administration to the other categories of persons mentioned in points (a) to (d) of this Article of the Convention.

Article 10, paragraph 2. The Committee notes that the Ministry of Labour budget for 1999 amounted to 0.55 per cent of the state budget. It asks the Government to indicate the evolution of the proportion of the Ministry of Labour budget in comparison with the state budget and to give its appreciation concerning the question of the suitability of the resources to the performance of the labour administration’s duties.