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

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Belize (Ratification: 2000)

Tripartite consultations required by the Convention. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in October 2013 in which it indicates that the Labour Advisory Board (LAB) held 11 meetings in 2011, and eight meetings in 2012. The Government reports that the LAB has completed its review of all labour legislation. The Ministry of Labour is in the process of drafting instructions, based on the LAB’s recommendations, to be submitted to the Minister of Labour and subsequently to the Attorney General’s Office. The LAB also discussed the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), and the Domestic Workers Recommendation, 2011 (No. 201). The Government provides further information on its intention to denounce the Night Work (Women) Convention (Revised), 1948 (No. 89), and to possibly ratify the Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171). The Committee previously noted that the Labour Commissioner would draft a Cabinet paper to the effect that steps be taken to ratify the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006). The Committee invites the Government to provide in its next report information on the content and outcome of the consultations held on each of the matters set out in Article 5(1) of the Convention, including the re-examination of unratified Conventions (Article 5(1)(c)).

Article 5(1)(b). Submission to the National Assembly. The Government once again indicates that the instruments adopted by the Conference have not yet been submitted to the National Assembly. The Committee must refer to its observation on the obligation of submission as provided for in article 19, paragraphs 5 and 6, of the ILO Constitution, in which it notes the instruments adopted by the Conference that are still awaiting submission. The Committee once again requests the Government to report on the effective consultations held with the social partners with respect to the proposals made to the National Assembly in connection with the submission of the instruments adopted by the Conference.