Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2003, published 92nd ILC session (2004)

Labour Administration Convention, 1978 (No. 150) - Belize (Ratification: 2000)

The Committee notes the Government’s first report. It also notes the Labour Act, the Trade Unions and Employers’ Organizations Act No. 24 of 27 October 2000, and Ordinance No. 160 of 15 November 2001 regulating the public service.

Article 3 of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to provide detailed information on the activities carried out pursuant to the national labour policy which are regarded as being matters which are regulated by having recourse to direct negotiations between employers’ and workers’ organizations.

Article 4. The Government is asked to indicate the arrangements made to ensure the effective operation and the coordination of the functions and responsibilities of the system of labour administration, and to supply a copy of the organization chart of the system of labour administration.

Article 5. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate the arrangements made at the national, regional and local levels, and in different sectors of economic activity to secure consultation, cooperation and negotiation between the public authorities and the organizations of employers and workers or employers’ and workers’ representatives.

Article 6, paragraph 2(a). The Committee requests the Government to indicate the progress made towards the preparation of a national employment policy and, if appropriate, towards its implementation, coordination and supervision.

Article 7. Noting that, according to the Government, the labour administration system provides advisory services to the categories of workers mentioned in this Article of the Convention but that there is no plan to extend by gradual stages the other functions of the system of labour administration to cover such workers, the Committee would be grateful if it would keep the ILO informed of any developments in this respect.

Article 8. The Government is asked to state the bodies within the system of labour administration that are responsible for contributing to the preparation of the national employment policy concerning international labour affairs and for participating in the representation of the State with respect to such affairs. Please also provide information on the practical role of each of these bodies.

Article 9. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide detailed information on the manner in which it is assured that regional and local bodies, to which activities in the field of labour administration have been assigned, are operating in accordance with national legislation and are adhering to the objectives assigned to them.

Part V of the report form. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the action taken on the recommendations made in the framework of the implementation of the project to modernizing the labour administrations of Central America (MATAC/ILO) and, if appropriate, in the framework of the Programme for the Promotion of Management-Labour Cooperation (PROMALCO).