Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Antigua and Barbuda (Ratification: 2002)

Article 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. The Committee notes the report received in September 2014 in which the Government reiterates that the National Labour Board was established under section B7 of the Labour Code and that its responsibilities are laid out therein. The Committee notes however that the matters set out in Article 5(1) of the Convention are not referred to in the Labour Code. The Committee once again requests the Government to provide detailed information on the activities of the National Labour Board on matters regarding international labour standards covered by the Convention. It also again requests the Government to include detailed and updated information on the tripartite consultations held concerning each of the matters related to international labour standards covered by Article 5(1) of the Convention.

Article 5(1)(b). Submission to Parliament. The Government indicates in its report that all instruments adopted by the Conference were submitted to Parliament. The Committee refers to its observations formulated over the last several years on the obligation of submission as provided for in the ILO Constitution. The Committee again requests the Government to report on the effective consultations held with respect to proposals made to the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda in connection with the submission of the instruments adopted by the Conference, including indications of the date on which the instruments were submitted to Parliament.

Article 5(1)(c). Examination of unratified Conventions and Recommendations. The Government indicates again in its report that it notes the comments made by the Committee with regard to the examination of unratified Conventions. The Committee requests the Government to provide updated information on the re-examination of unratified Conventions with its social partners, in particular the: (i) the Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129), which is deemed a governance Convention; (ii) the Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970 (No. 132) (which revises the Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14), and the Holidays with Pay (Agriculture) Convention, 1952 (No. 101), to which Antigua and Barbuda is a State party); and (iii) the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185) (which revises the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention, 1958 (No. 108), that has also been ratified by Antigua and Barbuda).

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2015.]