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

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Argentina (Ratification: 1987)

The Committee notes the Government’s report received on 19 August 2014, and the observations from the Confederation of Workers of Argentina (CTA Workers), received on 25 August 2014, and from the General Confederation of Labour of the Republic of Argentina (CGT RA), received on 1 September 2014.

Article 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. In reply to its 2013 direct request, the Government indicates that it provides premises for the holding of tripartite meetings, and also furnishes the necessary logistical support through its professional staff. The Committee notes the Government’s statement that the social partners have been invited to participate in various meetings and to give their views on the matters covered by Article 5(1) of the Convention. The Committee also notes with interest the records of proceedings of the meetings of the MERCOSUR Social and Labour Commission and the progress agreed to in November 2013 for the revision of the MERCOSUR Social and Labour Declaration. In its observations, the CTA Workers indicates that, although until 2010 it was regularly invited to participate in the meetings of the National Council for Employment, Productivity and the Adjustable Minimum Living Wage, it has no longer been invited to do so since 2010. The CTA Workers emphasizes that the Government continues to demonstrate a marked lack of interest in the implementation of the institutional machinery that ensures effective consultation and that, on the rare occasions that tripartite consultations are held covering matters relating to international labour standards, the appointment of the representatives of each of the social partners is at the discretion of the executive, which gives preference to organizations that are close to the Government. The CGT RA, while emphasizing that tripartite consultation is a constant and that tripartite social dialogue is fundamental and continuous, indicates that the Standing Advisory Committee on the Occupational Risks Act has not been convened for the past year and that no legislative action has yet been taken on certain important draft texts on which agreement was reached. The Committee invites the Government to continue providing information on the consultations held on the matters relating to international labour standards envisaged in Article 5(1) of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to send its comments on the observations made by the CGT RA and the CTA Workers.

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