Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Syrian Arab Republic (Ratification: 1985)

The Committee takes note of the Government's report on the application of the Convention. It notes the information supplied on the manner in which the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour is doing its utmost to ensure the application of the Convention, through regular consultations with employers and workers representative organizations on questions covered by the Convention, in particular within the Tripartite Consultation and Dialogue Committee. The Committee notes however that for a number of years the Government's reports do not contain the information required in the report form under Article 5 of the Convention. It wishes to remind the Government once more of the particular importance it attaches to the submission of full and detailed reports on the consultations undertaken on the questions under paragraph 1 of Article 5, in order to gain an exact appreciation of the effect given to the Convention in practice. Furthermore, with reference to its direct request of 1997, in which, at the request of the Government, it had recalled the difference in purpose between the annual report provided for in Article 6 of the Convention, and the reports on the application of the Convention sent to the ILO under article 22 of the ILO Constitution, the Committee requests it to supply all pertinent information on action taken pursuant to this explanation.

The Committee trusts the Government will take due account of these comments and that its subsequent reports will contain all the information required by the report form on the application of the Convention.