Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2013, publiée 103ème session CIT (2014)

Convention (n° 144) sur les consultations tripartites relatives aux normes internationales du travail, 1976 - Tchad (Ratification: 1998)

Follow-up to the conclusions of the Committee on the Application of Standards (International Labour Conference, 102nd Session, June 2013)

Technical assistance. The Committee notes the tripartite discussion regarding the application of this Convention which took place in the Conference Committee. In its conclusions, the Conference Committee invited the Government to take all appropriate measures to ensure the effective operation of the procedures required by this governance Convention. The Conference Committee also invited the Government to request technical assistance from the ILO, including the exchange of good practices with other member States in order to strengthen social dialogue and establish effective national procedures to support tripartite consultation, as required by the Convention. The Committee hopes that technical assistance from the ILO will enable the Government to strengthen social dialogue and the practice of tripartism in the areas covered by the Convention. It invites the Government to send a report containing details of the progress made in this regard.

Articles 2 and 5(1) of the Convention. Consultation mechanisms and effective tripartite consultations required by the Convention. The Committee notes the information in the Government’s brief report received in June 2013. The Government states that, in addition to the Higher Committee for Labour and Social Security, another tripartite body, the National Committee for Social Dialogue, has been established through Decree No. 1437/PR/PM/MFPT/09, adopted on 5 November 2009, concerning the creation, organization and operation of social dialogue structures. The National Committee for Social Dialogue played a role in a recent labour-related crisis between the Government and trade unions. The Committee refers once again to the 2008 Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization, which reaffirms that “social dialogue and the practice of tripartism between governments and the representative organizations of workers and employers within and across borders are now more relevant to achieving solutions and to building up social cohesion and the rule of law through, among other means, international labour standards”. The Committee invites the Government to send a report containing detailed information on the consultations held in 2013–14 on all the items covered by Article 5(1) of the Convention.

Article 4(2). Training. The Committee invites the Government to describe any arrangements made for the financing of any necessary training of participants in the consultative procedures.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2014.]