Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2022, published 111st ILC session (2023)

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

Article 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. The Government reports that the Labour Act, 2017 and the Labour Regulation, 2018, provide for the establishment and composition of three different bodies to ensure tripartite consultations concerning labour relations: the Central Labour Advisory Council, the Minimum Remuneration Fixation Committee; and the Labour Coordination Committee. The Government indicates that in each of these consultative bodies employers’ and workers’ representatives are on an equal footing. In addition, it notes with interest that in addition to an equal number of employers’ and workers’ representatives on the Central Labour Advisory Council and the Minimum Remuneration Fixation Committee, both groups must include a minimum number of women representatives. The Government refers to section 102 of Labour Act, 2017, which provides for convening the Central Labour Advisory Council to give advice on labour issues to the Government. It adds that the Council meets at least 3 times a year, but additional consultations can be held as needed. Noting that the Government does not provide information on the tripartite consultations held pursuant to Article 5(1) of the Convention, it requests that the Government provide detailed updated information on the content and outcome of the tripartite consultations held by the Central Labour Advisory Council on all matters concerning international labour standards set out in Article 5(1) of the Convention: replies to the questionnaires on 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)).