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

Labour Administration Convention, 1978 (No. 150) - Burkina Faso (Ratification: 1980)

The Committee notes 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 previous direct request, which read as follows:

1. Tripartite consultations. The Committee notes that the Labour Advisory Commission has been consulted, among other matters, on the preliminary draft texts of the Labour Code and the Social Security Code, as well as on the preliminary draft of the Uniform Labour Law Act of the member States of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA). It requests the Government to continue providing information on the matters examined by the Labour Advisory Commission and on the opinions that it issues (Article 5(1), of the Convention).

2. National employment policy. The Committee notes the information concerning the activities of the Directorate for the Promotion of the Informal Sector and the Ministry for the Promotion of Women to develop training and employment in the informal economy. The Committee recalls its interest in being provided with information on the activities of the Support Fund for Employment Promotion and the National Programme to Support the Reintegration of Retrenched Workers. It requests the Government to continue providing information on the nature and volume of the activities undertaken to promote employment and on the results that they achieve (Article 6(2)(a)). In this respect, the Government may find it useful to consult the General Survey that the Committee recently devoted to the relevant international labour standards, Promoting employment (2004). Furthermore, the Committee once again requests the Government to describe the activities of the labour administration in the context of the application of Decree No. 94-179 of 20 May 1994 determining the conditions for the establishment of agencies, private employment offices and temporary work agencies.

3. Application in practice. Please provide any extracts of reports or other periodic information provided by the labour administration services which give a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice (Part IV of the report form).

4. ILO technical cooperation. Please indicate, where appropriate, the ILO advisory or technical cooperation activities from which the country has benefited during the reporting period and describe the measures affecting the labour administration taken as a result (Part V of the report form).