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Labour Administration Convention, 1978 (No. 150) - Burkina Faso (RATIFICATION: 1980)

The Committee notes the Government’s reports for the period ending May 2000 and the annexed documentation.

The texts provided and the legislation available to the ILO bear witness to the legislative efforts made over recent years with a view to developing a labour administration system progressively covering workers considered to be salaried employees under the legislation, as well as other categories of workers, such as those working in the informal sector. In this respect, the Committee notes with interest the provisions of Decree No. 97-93 of 7 March 1997, which are reproduced in Decree No. 2000/358 of 2/8/2000, establishing, within the Ministry of Employment, Labour and Social Security, a central directorate and external services responsible for relations with the informal sector and to assist in promoting the activities carried out in the sector through training activities, financing and the stabilization of jobs within the context of the national labour policy. The Committee also notes Decree No. 96-17 of 30 January 1996 establishing a National Technical Advisory Committee on Health and Safety, which is of tripartite composition, with representatives of ministerial departments discharging functions related to the labour administration policy; Decree No. 97-101 of 12 March 1997 establishing the composition, mandate and operation of an Advisory Labour Commission responsible for issuing opinions on any matter relating to labour legislation, the opinion of which is required in a large number of cases related to the fields of labour administration; Order No. 98-49 of 19 October 1998 determining the responsibilities, organization and functioning of the directorate of the Training and Further Training Centre, which comes under the responsibility of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Housing and Urbanization, and works closely with international organizations and the Ministry responsible for employment; Decree No. 98-533 of 31 December 1998 establishing a Support Fund for Employment Promotion (FAPE) and determining its responsibilities, organization and functioning as a fund entrusted with promoting employment creation, consolidating existing jobs through projects, ensuring the recovery of the financing allocated to promoters and seeking funding; and Decrees Nos. 98-535 and 536 of 31 December 1998 respecting the National Support Programme for the Reintegration of Retrenched Workers. The Committee also notes that Decree No. 99-506 of 31 December 1999, adopting the strategy for the promotion of craftworkers, takes into account the contribution of the informal sector and refers to the Labour Code with regard to employees and craftworkers; the Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide information on the precise measures taken in practice by the directorate for the promotion of the informal sector and on the results achieved in terms of knowledge of the sector (Article 7 of the Convention). It would also be grateful of the Government would provide detailed information on the progress made in the process of establishing the National Advisory Labour Commission, the National Technical Advisory Committee on Health and Safety, the Training and Further Training Centre referred to above (Article 5), the Employment Promotion Support Fund (FAPE) and the National Support Programme for the Reintegration of Retrenched Workers (Article 6(2)(b)).

The Committee is also addressing a request directly to the Government on other matters.