Decision on the 14th item on the agenda: Report of the Director-General Sixth Supplementary Report

Record of decisions | 08 July 2009

Decision on the 14th item on the agenda: Report of the Director-General

Sixth Supplementary Report: Report of the Committee set up to examine the representation alleging non-observance by Japan of the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159), made under article 24 of the ILO Constitution by the National Union of Welfare and Childcare Workers

In the light of the conclusions set out in paragraphs 60–84 of the report of the Committee, the Governing Body:

(a) approved the present report;

(b) invited the Government to take due note of the matters raised in the above conclusions and to include detailed information thereon in its next report under article 22 in respect of the Convention due in 2010;

(c) entrusted the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations with following up the questions raised in this report with respect to the application of the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159); and

(d) decided to make the report of the Committee publicly available and closed the procedure initiated by the representation of the National Union of Welfare and Childcare Workers, alleging non-observance by Japan of the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159).

(Document GB.304/14/6, paragraph 85.)