Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 83rd ILC session (1996)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Mauritius (Ratification: 1994)

The Committee notes with interest the Government's first report and the observation of the Mauritian Employers' Federation.

It notes that the tripartite consultations provided for in Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Convention are conducted in the form of written communications or in a tripartite subcommittee of the Consultative Labour Council established for this purpose under section 54 of the Labour Code.

The Committee would be grateful if the Government would describe in its next report the procedures which ensure effective consultations within the meaning of Article 2, that is, placing the representative organizations in a position to make valid decisions on the questions concerning ILO activities laid down in the Convention.

It also requests it to send the ILO copies of the texts relating to the establishment, attributions and working of the above-mentioned tripartite subcommittee and to indicate what measures are taken to ensure that employers' and workers' organizations choose freely the members of the tripartite advisory subcommittee (Article 3), since according to section 54 of the Labour Code the members of the Consultative Labour Council are appointed by the Minister on conditions and for a period which he can determine.

The Committee notes the information supplied on the subject of the consultations held during the period covered by the report on the matters set out in Article 5, paragraph 1. It would be grateful if the Government would continue to supply such information in each of its reports but also to indicate the frequency of these consultations (which, in conformity with Article 5, paragraph 2, shall be undertaken at least once a year) and to specify the nature of all reports or recommendations resulting from the consultations.

Finally, the Committee notes in regard to Article 6 that no annual report is produced on the working of the procedures provided for in the Convention. It would be grateful if the Government would supply in its next report information on the consultations held with representative organizations on the need to issue such a report.