Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Liberia (Ratification: 2003)

Consultations required by the Convention. The Committee notes that the Government’s report received in May 2010 does not reply to its 2009 direct request. The Committee recalls that consultations required under the Convention are conducted in the context of the National Tripartite Committee which was established in June 2008 following the conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding among the social partners for the implementation of the Convention. It invites the Government to provide detailed information on the content and outcome of the tripartite consultations held on each of the matters relating to international labour standards covered by Article 5(1) of the Convention, including information as to the frequency of such consultations and the nature of any reports or recommendations made as a result of the consultations.

Representatives of employers and workers. The Committee asks the Government to provide information on the manner in which it ensures that the representatives of the Liberia Labour Congress and the Liberia Chamber of Commerce are freely chosen by their representative organizations, and how it ensures that employers and workers are represented on an equal footing on the National Tripartite Committee.

Financing of training. The Committee recalls that the National Tripartite Committee was in dire need of training to improve the capacity-building needs of the social partners. The Committee invites the Government to report on the arrangements made, possibly with ILO assistance, for the financing of any necessary training of participants in the consultation procedures on international labour standards covered by the Convention (Article 4(2)).

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2011.]