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

Social Policy (Basic Aims and Standards) Convention, 1962 (No. 117) - Bahamas (Ratification: 1976)

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 following matters raised in its previous direct request, and which have been the subject of its comments for a number of years:

Article 4(b) and (c) of the Convention. The Committee noted the information supplied by the Government on the policy concerning the distribution of land to foreigners and points out once again that the above provisions of the Convention prescribe the control over the transfer of agricultural land to persons who are not farmers and it hopes that the Government will also indicate its policy in respect of the control over the transfer of agricultural land to nationals who are not farmers. It also requests the Government to supply the text of any legislation including the principles of national land policy that may have been promulgated in the matter.

Article 4(d). Please indicate the measures that have been taken to give effect to this provision concerning the supervision of tenancy arrangements and of working conditions with a view to securing for tenants and labourers the highest practicable standards of living and an equitable share of any advantages which may result from improvements in productivity or in price levels.

Article 4(e). Please supply the text of the statement concerning cooperatives made before Parliament to which the Government has referred in its earlier reports.

Article 5. Please indicate the measures that have been taken to guarantee to wage-earners whose minimum wage is not fixed by collective agreement and to independent producers the maintenance of a minimum level of living and to determine this level of living by means of official surveys, in accordance with the above provision of the Convention.

Articles 6, 7, 8 and 9. Please indicate how effect is given to these Articles of the Convention, which concern migrant workers, and supply the information called for in this connection by the report form adopted by the Governing Body.

Article 12. Please indicate the measures taken by the competent authority to regulate the maximum amounts of advances on wages and to give effect to paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article, which concern the limits imposed on the amount of these advances and the measures taken to render legally irrecoverable any advance made in excess of the above limits, in accordance with the above Article of the Convention.

Article 13. Please indicate the measures that have been taken to give effect to this Article, concerning the encouragement of thrift and the protection of wage-earners and independent producers against usury.

Article 14. Please indicate the measures that have been taken to abolish all discrimination among workers on grounds of race, colour, sex, belief, tribal association or trade union affiliation in all the cases set out in paragraph 1(a) to (i) of this Article, and the measures that have been taken to lessen the differences in wage rates due to discrimination on the above grounds, in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article.

The Committee trusts that the Government will not fail to supply the information requested above.