Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1997, published 86th ILC session (1998)

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

1. The Committee has noted the Government's report and the information provided in response to its previous direct request.

2. As regards the tripartite subcommittee set up within the Labour Advisory Board to deal with issues relating to the ILO's activities, the Committee requests the Government to specify whether texts relating to its establishment, duties and functioning have been produced. The Government is requested, where necessary, to provide copies of such texts to the ILO. In addition, it is requested to describe in its next report how the procedures conducted by means of written communications, or within the above-mentioned subcommittee, guarantee effective consultations as set out in Article 2 of the Convention.

3. The Committee has noted with interest the information according to which the representative organizations of employers and workers, appointed by the Ministry of Labour and Industrial Relations to sit on the Labour Advisory Board are free to choose their representatives, including those who sit on the above-mentioned subcommittee.

4. The Committee notes the Government's response under Article 6 and requests it to keep the ILO informed of the progress in the discussions undertaken on the production of an annual report on the working of the procedures provided for by the Convention.