Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Convention concerning Statistics of Wages and Hours of Work, 1938 (No. 63) - Guernsey

Parts I and II of the Convention. The Government indicates in its report that headline data on average earnings have been published since 2011 in the States Strategic Monitoring Report and the Facts and Figures booklet, and in the Guernsey Earnings Bulletin, published annually since 2012. The Bulletin provides information on the average earnings of all employees, disaggregated by age, gender and sector. The Government further indicates that the data are supplied by the Social Security Department and include only employed persons. The averages reported relate to individuals (not households), and include full and part-time workers, providing a measure of underlying trends and changes in earnings. The Committee notes that information available to the ILO Department of Statistics indicates that labour market statistics are mainly compiled using data collated by the Rolling Electronic Census IT System and disseminated on a quarterly basis. Records from various official agencies are also used to derive statistics on labour-related topics, such as registered unemployment. The Committee welcomes the information provided by the Government in its report and invites the Government to continue to provide information on any developments regarding the application of the Convention.

The Committee notes the recommendations of the Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group and the corresponding decision of the Governing Body at its 328th Session in October–November 2016 (GB.328/LILS/2/1) calling upon the Office to commence follow-up with member States that are still bound by the Convention, encouraging them to ratify the Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160), as the most up-to-date instrument in this area, and resulting in the automatic denunciation of Convention No. 63. The Committee reminds the Government of the availability of ILO technical assistance in this regards.