Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Dock Work Convention, 1973 (No. 137) - Australia (Ratification: 1974)

The Committee notes the detailed information provided by the Government in the report received in August 2007 in relation to its 2002 direct request. It again asks the Government to provide relevant updated information on the measures taken to ensure that appropriate safety, health, welfare and vocational training provisions apply to dockworkers (Article 6 of the Convention) including updated information on the legislative measures concerning the application of the Convention. Please also supply data on the numbers of different categories of stevedoring workers – permanent employees, guaranteed wage employees, supplementary employees – and on any measures taken at the tripartite level in improving the efficiency of work in ports (Part V of the report form).