Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2010, publiée 100ème session CIT (2011)

The Committee notes the Government’s replies to its previous request according to which the legislation which rules the implementation of the “Quarterly Survey of Employment, Earnings and Hours of Work” (SEEH) is the “Statistics Act Cap 192”. It also notes the communication of copies of the Act and the survey questionnaire entitled “Survey of employment, earnings and hours”. The Committee notes, however, that no statistics which could be derived from the quarterly SEEH have been transmitted to the ILO.

Since the latest SEEH was apparently conducted in 2007, the Committee asks the Government to communicate its results and indicate the steps taken to publish or disseminate its results.

In the previous report, mention was also made of the new annual Survey of Labour Cost and Wage Rates (SLCW), but none of the results have been transmitted to the ILO. The Committee recalls that, in principle, once these surveys are improved with a view to reducing the non-response rate and improving the reliability of the estimates, they should provide the statistics which are required to satisfy the major requirements of Parts II, III and IV of the Convention.

Referring to its previous comments whereby it noted the indication that the Government was considering the ratification of the Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160), the Committee would like to draw to the Government’s attention that such statistics would also fulfil the major requirements of Article 9(1) and (2) and Article 11 of the said instrument. The Committee draws the attention of the Government to the new international standards concerning the measurement of working time (see Resolution I adopted by the 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, whose larger number of concepts and measures would seem to be better aligned with national practice accessible via www.ilo.org/global/What_we_do/Statistics/standards/resolutions/lang--en/
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Noting that the Government provides no updated information as to the prospects for the ratification of Convention No. 160, the Committee requests it to do so and, in any case, encourages it strongly to take the necessary steps to this end, taking advantage of the support of the employers’ and workers’ organizations mentioned in its previous report.