Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - New Zealand (Ratification: 1987)

The Committee has noted with interest the information supplied by the Government in its first report on the application of the Convention. It would be grateful if the Government would provide additional information on the following points:

Article 5, paragraph 1(c), of the Convention. The Committee ascertains from the Government's report that employers' and workers' organisations would be consulted if ratification of a Convention is a definite prospect, whereas this provision has a larger scope and implies that the required consultations should be held at an earlier stage. It requests the Government to supply information on the measures taken to ensure that, as provided for in the Convention, consultations on the re-examination at appropriate intervals of unratified Conventions and of Recommendations to which effect has not yet been given are held to consider the measures which might be taken to promote their implementation and ratification as appropriate.

Article 6. Please give particulars of the consultations that have eventually taken place with the representative organisations on the opportunity of issuing an annual report on the working of the consultation procedure in force. As noted by the Committee in its General Survey (paragraphs 178-179) the wording of this Article is flexible, and the report required could take the form of a section of a general report, for example the annual report of the Ministry of Labour or the annual report of the Government delegation to the International Labour Conference.