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

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Honduras (Ratification: 2012)

The Committee notes the Government’s first report on the application of the Convention received in September 2014. The Committee also notes the observations made by the Workers’ General Central Union (CGT) and the Honduran National Business Council (COHEP) supported by the International Organisation of Employers (IOE), as well as the Government’s replies to said observations. The IOE voiced its support for the observations of COHEP. The CGT expressed its discomfort with the Government’s interference in a number of tripartite bodies. For its part, the COHEP states that the Government submitted replies without having consulted the employers and workers. The Committee invites the Government to indicate whether the comments of the CGT and COHEP were taken into account, in order to ensure that the tripartite consultations on international labour standards were conducted in accordance with the Convention.

Article 4 of the Convention. Training. The Committee notes that the Economic and Social Council (CES) is a body for dialogue and consultation on socio-economic and labour matters, whose fields of competence include the areas covered by the Convention. The Government states that, through the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, it requested the CES to establish a tripartite committee to review regularly all the consultations concerning the operation of the Organization. The Committee also takes note of the assistance received by the CES for its institution-building and the assistance requested by the Government, in its report, for strengthening the capacities of its members and the technical secretariat. The Committee invites the Government to examine, together with the social partners, the possibility of addressing the Office to examine ways in which the Government might receive advice and assistance on the areas covered by the Convention.

Article 5(1). Effective tripartite consultations. The Committee invites the Government to provide specific information on the consultations held on the replies to questionnaires concerning items of the agenda of the Conference (Article 5(1)(a)), on the proposals made to the National Congress in connection with the submission of the instruments adopted by the Conference (Article 5(1)(b)) and on the preparation of reports on the application of the ratified Conventions (Article 5(1)(d)). Please also indicate whether any consideration has been given to holding tripartite consultations to re-examine unratified Conventions or Recommendations to which no effect has been given (Article 5(1)(e)).