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

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) - Japan (Ratification: 1992)

Follow-up to a representation submitted under article 24 of the ILO Constitution. The Committee notes that, at its 304th Session (March 2009), the Governing Body adopted on 18 March 2009, the recommendations of the tripartite committee established to examine the representation alleging non-observance by Japan of the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159), made under article 24 of the Constitution of the ILO by the National Union of Welfare and Childcare Workers. These recommendations entrust the Committee with following up the application of the Convention in respect of the questions raised in the representation (document GB.304/14/6). Accordingly, the Committee invites the Government to reply to its 2005 direct request and to provide detailed information on the matters raised in the conclusions of the tripartite committee in its next report, which is due in 2010.