Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2002, published 91st ILC session (2003)

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

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 matters raised in its direct request of 2001, which read as follows:

1. Articles 2 and 4 of the Convention. The Committee notes that the Labour Advisory Board was reactivated in July 2000 as a permanent tripartite body to provide technical advice and information to the Minister responsible for labour. The Government indicates that the three parties have effectively collaborated on a number of issues but this collaboration could be further enhanced through more training on the procedures and issues related to international labour standards. It also states that the Government has mainly relied on financial and technical support of the ILO and asks for enhanced ILO support. The Committee hopes that the Government, together with the Office, will study ways in which assistance could be provided in order to ensure "effective consultations" with respect to the matters covered by the Convention and to strengthen social dialogue.

2. Article 5. The Committee notes the brief information supplied in relation to consultations covered by paragraph 1(a), (b) and (d). It hopes that the Government’s next report will include more details on the consultations held on replies to questionnaires concerning items on the agenda of the Conference, the proposals to be made to Parliament on the submission of the instruments adopted by the Conference at its 81st, 82nd, 83rd, 84th, 85th, 86th and 88th Sessions and questions arising out of article 22 reports.

Paragraph 1(c) and (e). The Committee recalls that the ILO Governing Body has invited States which are parties to the Recruiting of Indigenous Workers Convention, 1936 (No. 50), the Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1939 (No. 64), the Penal Sanctions (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1939 (No. 65), and to the Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1947 (No. 86) - all of which Uganda has ratified and which remain in force - to contemplate ratifying the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), and denouncing Conventions Nos. 50, 64, 65 and 86 at the same time. States parties to the Underground Work (Women) Convention, 1935 (No. 45), were invited to contemplate ratifying the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No. 176). Please indicate if consultation is envisaged on this matter.

Article 6. The Committee again requests the Government to indicate whether the question of issuing a report on the working of the consultations procedures covered by the Convention has been the subject of consultations with the social partners. Please provide, where appropriate, information on the results of such consultations.