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

Dock Work Convention, 1973 (No. 137) - Brazil (Ratification: 1994)

Article 1 of the Convention. Definitions. Consultation of the organizations concerned. The Committee notes the observations of the National Federation of Dockworkers (FNP) received in June 2014 expressing concern at the new definition of “trabalhadores conferentes de capatazia” and other matters covered by Act No. 12815 of 5 June 2013, issuing new regulations on port activities. The Committee requests the Government to provide its comments in respect to the FNP’s observations. Please provide the information requested in the report form so that the Committee is in a position to examine the extent to which Act No. 12815 ensures the application of the Convention.

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