Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

Dock Work Convention, 1973 (No. 137) - Guyana (Ratification: 1983)

The Committee notes with regret 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 2002 direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee notes the Government’s report for the period ending September 2002, according to which there has been no change in the application of the Convention. It requests the Government in its next report to give a general appreciation on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, including for instance extracts from the reports of the authorities entrusted with the application of the laws and regulations, and the available information on the numbers of dockworkers on the registers of workers in docks maintained in accordance with Article 3 of the Convention and of any variations in their numbers (Part V of the report form).