Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2001, published 90th ILC session (2002)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Burundi (Ratification: 1997)

1. Articles 2 and 5 of the Convention. The Committee notes the detailed information supplied by the Government in reply to its previous direct request on the procedures used to ensure effective consultations concerning the matters set out in Article 5, paragraph 1, between representatives of the government, of employers and of workers. It notes that the chief recommendation of the Burundi Employers’ Association (AEB) is that rather than ratifying a large number of Conventions as in the past, the essential is to comply with those already in force. According to the report, no ratified Conventions have yet been denounced and when Conventions of a general scope have been ratified, it is envisaged that sectoral Conventions will be denounced.

2. The Committee recalls that in the framework of the policy of reviewing standards, the ILO Governing Body invited States parties to the initial Conventions to consider the possibility of ratifying the corresponding revised Convention and at the same time denouncing the earlier Convention. In addition, it emphasized that implementation of these decisions assumed the holding of tripartite consultations at the level of member States, bearing in mind particularly the procedures set down in Convention No. 144. The Committee notes that certain Conventions proposed for denunciation are in force in Burundi and that ratification of more recent Conventions would allow the earlier ones to be denounced. The Committee therefore invites the Government to consider the possibility of holding tripartite consultations on the possibility of ratifying the following instruments:

-  Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970 (No. 132), which would result in denunciation of Conventions Nos. 52 and 101, currently in force in Burundi;

-  Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167), which would result in denunciation of Convention No. 62, currently in force in Burundi;

-  Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), which could be accompanied by denunciation of Conventions Nos. 50 and 64, currently in force in Burundi;

-  Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171), which could be accompanied by denunciation of Conventions Nos. 4 and 41, currently in force in Burundi.

The Government may, if it deems appropriate, request advice and assistance from the Office on this matter. The Committee hopes that the Government will be in a position to include indications on these questions in its next report.

3. The Committee requests the Government to continue to supply information on the consultations held during the period covered by the next report on the other questions enumerated in Article 5, paragraph 1, to indicate their content and to specify the nature of all resulting reports or recommendations.