Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Guatemala (Ratification: 1989)

Articles 2 and 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. The Government indicates in its report received in August 2009 that the Tripartite Committee for International Labour Affairs has been meeting in a warm and respectful atmosphere. The Government points out that this Committee has been an extremely useful forum for dialogue working on matters of the utmost importance. The Government encloses with its report copies of the communications, attendance lists and minutes of the meetings held between August 2007 and August 2009, which record the opinions exchanged by the social partners. Technical assistance from the ILO was sought on various occasions, in particular with regard to the prospects for the ratification of the Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175). The Government indicates that the Tripartite Committee’s aim is drafting a specific law governing part-time work, which would provide legal certainty for part-time work, without ratifying Convention No. 175. The possibility of denouncing the Night Work (Women) Convention (Revised), 1948 (No. 89), and ratifying the Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171), is also being discussed. Furthermore, the Government provides information on the current tripartite discussions in the Tripartite Committee on a new legal regime for the imposition of penalties by the General Labour Inspectorate. The Tripartite Committee met with the ILO high-level tripartite mission that visited Guatemala in February 2009. However, the Indigenous and Rural Workers Trade Union Movement of Guatemala indicated that it had not received the reports due in 2009 on which it wished to comment. The Committee reiterates its observation of 2008 in which it pointed out that the consultations covered by the Convention will enable the Government and social partners to maintain and strengthen tripartism and social dialogue. The Committee requests the Government to continue providing information on the tripartite consultations held on the matters related to international labour standards covered by the Convention.