Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Bahamas (Ratification: 1979)

Tripartite consultations required by the Convention. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in August 2013 which includes information on legislative developments of the bill for the National Tripartite Council Act. The Government indicates that the bill has already been approved by the social partners. It is expected that, upon the resumption of the lower chamber of Parliament after the summer recess, the bill will be introduced for its second reading and thereafter it will be debated and passed on to the Senate. The Committee takes note of the list of provisions of the bill that will give effect to the Convention. Moreover, the Government recalls that the Tripartite Forum (TRIFOR), which is responsible for consultations under the Convention, continues to meet and discuss labour and industrial relations matters in the country. The Committee notes, however, that the Government’s report does not include information on consultations held on matters set out in Article 5(1) of the Convention. The Committee invites the Government to include in its next report further information on legislative developments of the National Tripartite Council Act. It also requests the Government to provide in its next report detailed information on the content and outcome of the consultations held on each of the matters set out in Article 5(1) of the Convention.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2014.]