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

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Namibia (Ratification: 1995)

Article 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. In response to the Committee’s previous comments, the Government indicates that it prepared the response to the questionnaire sent to member States in May 2017 and that representatives of trade unions and employers’ organizations were consulted in this regard. Concerning the re-examination at appropriate intervals of unratified Conventions and Recommendations to which effect has not yet been given (Article 5(1)(c)), the Government indicates that its report on the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), was sent to the most representative trade unions and employers’ organizations and subsequently to the ILO. The Government adds that Namibia responded to the abrogation of Conventions Nos 21, 50, 64, 65, 86, and 104, and that it sent its report to the most representative trade unions and employers’ organizations. In its 2000 General Survey, Tripartite Consultations, paragraph 71, the Committee noted that pursuant to paragraph 2(3) of the Tripartite Consultation (Activities of the International Labour Organisation) Recommendation, 1976 (No. 152), “consultations though written communications should be undertaken only ‘when those involved in the consultative procedures agreed that such communications are appropriate and sufficient’”. The Committee requests the Government to provide updated information on the activities of the Labour Advisory Council and to indicate the manner and frequency of tripartite consultations relevant to the Convention. It also requests the Government to continue to provide updated detailed information concerning the content and outcome of tripartite discussions held on the matters related to international labour standards within the scope of Article 5(1) of the Convention, particularly relating to the questionnaires on the Conference agenda items (Article 5(1)(a)); the submission of instruments adopted by the Conference (Article 5(1)(b)); the re-examination at appropriate intervals of unratified Conventions and Recommendations to which effect has not yet been given (Article 5(1)(c)); reports to be presented on the application of ratified Conventions (Article 5(1)(d)); and the possible denunciation of ratified Conventions (Article 5(1)(e)).