Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1981)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request.

The Committee noted the text of Decree No. 20601-TSS of 5 August 1991 which establishes a tripartite Supreme Council of Labour which is charged, inter alia, with studying proposals which the Government will present to the National Assembly with respect to the submission of ILO Conventions and Recommendations, with studying government replies to questionnaires concerning items on the agenda of the International Labour Conference, and with examining at appropriate intervals questions regarding the eventual ratification of unratified Conventions and of the application of Recommendations to which effect previously had not been given.

The Committee asked the Government to provide further particulars on the following Articles in its forthcoming report:

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee would be grateful if the Government, in its forthcoming report, would provide it with information concerning the operation of the procedures established under the Decree and, in particular, the operation of the Council, designed to ensure effective consultations in accordance with the Convention.

Article 3, paragraph 1, of the Convention. The Committee would be grateful if the Government, in its forthcoming report, would provide it with information concerning the operation of the procedures established under the Decree designed to ensure that the representatives of employers and workers are freely chosen by their organizations in accordance with the Convention.

Article 4, paragraph 2, of the Convention. The Committee would be grateful if the Government, in its forthcoming report, would inform it whether any arrangements have been made by the competent authority and the representative organizations for the financing of any necessary training of participants in the procedures established under the Decree.

Article 5 of the Convention. The Committee would be grateful if the Government, in its forthcoming report, would provide it with detailed information on any consultations which have taken place on each of the questions set forth in paragraph 1 of this Article, including the actual frequency of such consultations.

Article 6 of the Convention. The Committee would be grateful if the Government, in its forthcoming report, would provide it with a copy of any report issued by the competent authority in connection with the procedures established under the Decree.