Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - United States of America (Ratification: 1990)

The Committee has examined the Government's first report and notes with interest that all the provisions (except for Article 15 on the point mentioned below) of the Convention are satisfactorily applied. It hopes that the Government will continue its efforts to collect, compile and publish basic labour statistics, as well as to communicate necessary information to the International Labour Office, as required under the Convention.

As regards Article 15 of the Convention (read together with Article 2), the Committee notes that work stoppages involving less than 1,000 workers are not covered by the statistics. It recalls that, according to the resolution adopted by the Fifteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians concerning statistics of strikes and lockouts, paragraph 7, the lower limit on the scale of the action covered by the statistics, if placed, should be as low as possible. The Committee would therefore be grateful if the Government would indicate whether it intends to give consideration to lowering this limit.