Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2018, published 108th ILC session (2019)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Morocco (Ratification: 2013)

Articles 2 and 5(1)(c) and (e). Effective tripartite consultations. Re examination of unratified Conventions. Denunciations. The Government indicates that the national tripartite commission responsible for consultations to reinforce the application of international labour standards has held three meetings since it was established, on 7 April 2015, 28 February 2017 and 27 March 2018, respectively. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that, following discussions on the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), during social dialogue round tables held between 13 March and 20 April 2018, the national tripartite commission recommended that the efforts should continue to facilitate the ratification of the Convention. The Committee also notes that the Government plans to launch a study of the possibility of ratifying the Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171). The Government adds that, at its next session, the national tripartite commission will examine the Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26), and the Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery (Agriculture) Convention, 1951 (No. 99). The Committee requests the Government to provide updated information on the re-examination with the social partners of unratified Conventions, and particularly Conventions Nos 87 and 171. It also requests the Government to indicate the content and the outcome of the tripartite consultations on the possibility of denouncing Conventions Nos 26 and 99.

Article 3. Representation of employers and workers on an equal footing. The Government indicates that the internal rules of the national tripartite commission provide that the most representative organizations of employers and workers shall be represented equally in the commission, but it does not specify the manner in which that occurs. Taking into consideration the fact that, according to the Government, the national tripartite commission is composed of ten members representing occupational unions (five titular members and five substitute members) and four members representing employers (two titular members and two substitute members), the Committee requests the Government to provide fuller information on the composition of the national tripartite commission and to indicate the measures that have been taken or are envisaged to ensure the equal representation of the most representative organizations of employers and workers on the national tripartite commission.

Article 4. Necessary training of participants in the procedures. The Committee notes that the Government has established channels of information so that the representative organizations of employers and of workers are able to have access to the documents on which consultations are based relating, in particular, to the standard-setting activities of the ILO and international labour standards ratified by Morocco; the process of consultations with employers’ and workers’ organizations concerning the reports on international labour Conventions prepared by the Government for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017; and programmes included in the context of ILO technical cooperation. The Government adds that a tripartite workshop in the context of the project to reinforce the impact of international trade on employment in Morocco was organized to improve the capacities and technical competencies of members of the national tripartite commission in relation to the application of international labour standards in free trade agreements on 20 April 2017, with ILO assistance. The Committee requests the Government to continue providing information on all the measures taken to provide training to the participants in the consultation procedures covered by the Convention.