Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2007, publiée 97ème session CIT (2008)

The Committee notes with regret 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 notes the Government’s indication in its 2000 report that draft legislation was currently being considered providing for workers’ wages as a privileged debt in the event of bankruptcy or judicial liquidation of an undertaking, as set out in Article 11 of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to provide full particulars on the scope and content of the proposed enactment and also to supply the text of the new legislation as soon as it is formally adopted. Moreover, the Committee notes the Government’s statement to the effect that the Barbados Workers’ Union has been very concerned about the question of the preferential treatment of wage claims in case of bankruptcy and has called upon the Government to ratify the Protection of Workers’ Claims (Employer’s Insolvency) Convention, 1992 (No. 173). The Committee requests the Government to continue supplying information on any future developments in this regard.