Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Labour Administration Convention, 1978 (No. 150) - Gabon (Ratification: 1979)

The Committee notes the very brief reports received in September 2004 and August 2005. It notes that the Government states that no new measures have been taken for application of the Convention and even that the various advisory and other bodies mentioned in its previous report do not yet function properly. The Committee hopes that the Government will be in a position to show in its next report the progress made in application of the Convention, in regard particularly to the following aspects.

1. Tripartite consultations. Please indicate the measures taken or envisaged to guarantee the effective operation of the Advisory Labour Committee, the Advisory Technical Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, and the National Committee which examines salaries. Please indicate any matters that have been brought before these bodies, the opinions they have issued and how they have been taken into account (Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Convention).

2. National employment policy. Please describe the role of the National Employment Office in the preparation, implementation and evaluation of the National Employment Policy. Please describe the activities of the Help Fund for Professional Integration and Reintegration and the manner in which they contribute to pursuing the objectives of the employment policy (Article 6, paragraph 2(a)). In this respect, the Government might find it useful to consult the General Survey that the Committee has produced recently on the relevant international labour standards: Promoting employment (2004).

3. Practical application. Please communicate extracts of any reports or other periodic information provided by the principal labour administration services to allow the appreciation of application of the Convention in practice (Part IV of the report form).

4. ILO technical cooperation. Please describe any ILO advisory or technical cooperation activities from which the country has benefited during the period of the report and specify any measures affecting the labour administration which were adopted as a result (Part V of the report form).