Section VII: Role of employers' and workers' organizations (ILS Handbook of Procedures)


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Handbook of procedures relating to international labour Conventions and Recommendations

VII. Role of employers' and workers' organizations (Endnote_1)

Communication of reports and information to employers' and workers' organizations

61. By virtue of the constitutional obligations on all member States, (Endnote_2) representative organizations of employers and workers have to receive copies of:

(a) information communicated to the Office concerning measures taken to submit Conventions and Recommendations to the competent national authorities;

(b) reports on the application of ratified Conventions;

(c) reports on unratified Conventions and on Recommendations.

In addition, the Office procedures in relation to these obligations (Endnote_3) endeavour to ensure that national organizations receive copies of relevant comments of the supervisory bodies and the requests for reports.

Consultation of representative organizations

62. Convention No. 144 and Recommendation No. 152 provide for tripartite consultations on:

(a) government replies to questionnaires and comments on proposed new instruments to be discussed at the Conference;

(b) proposals to be made to the competent authorities when Conventions and Recommendations are submitted to them;

(c) questions arising out of reports on ratified Conventions; (Endnote_4)

(d) measures relating to unratified Conventions and Recommendations; (Endnote_5)

(e) denunciation of Conventions.

Transmission of comments by employers' and workers' organizations

63. Any employers' or workers' organization, whether or not it has received copies of government reports, may at any time transmit its comments on any of the matters arising in connection with paragraphs 61 and 62 above. The Committee of Experts and the Conference Committee have emphasized the value of such comments as a means of assisting them, in particular, in assessing the effective application of ratified Conventions.

Participation in the Conference

64. Through their presence at the International Labour Conference, and particularly in the Committee on the Application of Standards, representatives of employers' and workers' organizations may raise matters concerning the discharge of standards-related obligations.

Endnotes

Endnote 1

See also the Office's Note on the role of employers' and workers' organizations in the implementation of ILO Conventions and Recommendations (paper D.40.1987). As to the role of employers' and workers' organizations in relation to special procedures, see paras. 76-84 below.

Endnote 2

See paras. 16, 39 and 52 above.

Endnote 3

See paras. 14, 41 and 50 above.

Endnote 4

Under Recommendation No. 152, consultations should also take place on questions arising out of article 19 reports (on submission to the competent authorities and on unratified Conventions and Recommendations); and, subject to national practice, on questions of legislation to give effect to Conventions (particularly when ratified) and Recommendations.

Endnote 5

This question should be re-examined "at appropriate intervals".

Cross references
Conventions: C144
Recommendations:R152

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