Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

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

The Committee notes the Government's first and second reports on the application of the Convention. It also notes Ministerial Decision No. 990 of 22 September 1990. It would be grateful if the Government would supply further information on the following points:

Article 3, paragraph 1, of the Convention. Please describe the manner in which the representatives of employers and workers called upon to participate in the work of the Tripartite Consultation Commission are chosen.

Article 4, paragraph 1. The Committee notes that, by virtue of section 4 of the above Decision of 22 September 1990, the secretariat of the Tripartite Consultation Commission is provided by the ILO Office in Buenos Aires, which also provides its technical assistance and undertakes the procedure of convening the representatives of employers and workers who are members of the Commission. It points out that by virtue of this provision of the Convention, "the competent authority shall assume responsibility for the administrative support" of the consultation procedure; this responsibility, as the Committee noted in its 1982 General Survey, clearly covers the financing involved in the consultation procedure. The Committee assumes that the above is an interim arrangement and hopes that the Government will rapidly be able to assume the responsibilities which are normally incumbent upon it, if necessary with the technical assistance of the ILO, and that it will bring its legislation into full conformity with the Convention.

Article 4, paragraph 2. Please describe any arrangements that have been made or are envisaged with the representative organisations for the financing of any necessary training of participants in the consultative procedures required by the Convention.

Article 5. Please give full particulars of the consultations held, during the period covered by the next report, on each of the matters set out in paragraph 1 of this Article, including information as to the frequency of such consultations, and indicate the nature of any reports or recommendations made as a result of the consultations.

Article 6. Finally, please supply information on the consultations that have taken place with the representative organisations on whether to issue an annual report on the working of the current consultation procedures.

Point V of the report form. Please also supply any information bearing on the practical application of the Convention, particularly as regards the point raised under Article 4, paragraph 1, of the Convention.