Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Switzerland (Ratification: 1987)

The Committee takes note of the Government’s report, and asks the Government to supply information on the following points.

Articles 9 and 10 of the Convention.  The Committee takes note of the progress made and the implementation of a statistical programme based on a certain number of surveys which can fulfil the requirements of Articles 9, paragraph 1, and 10 and partially of Article 9, paragraph 2 (concerning normal hours of work). It asks the Government to indicate whether the statistical information taken from the survey on the collective agreements can establish statistics of rates of wages (or wage tariffs) in accordance with Article 9, paragraph 2.

Concerning the limitation provided for by Article 17, the Committee notes the indication in the Government’s report that wages in agriculture are collected annually by means of the survey on wages of employees in agriculture. In this case, the Committee suggests that the Government considers the possibility of withdrawing the limitation concerning the scope of Articles 9 and 10 in regard to agriculture. The Committee asks the Government to communicate complementary methodological information and the corresponding statistics to the Office.

Article 13.  The Committee asks the Government to provide further methodological information concerning the 1998 survey and to transmit the publication containing the results from the 1998 survey to the Office as soon as it becomes available (in accordance with Article 6). The Committee also asks the Government to keep the Office informed of any future developments in the field of household income and expenditure statistics.

Article 14.  The Committee notes that separate statistics are published by the LAA for occupational injuries and occupational diseases. It asks the Government to indicate whether it plans to collect and compile data on the number of days lost as a result of occupational injuries.

Article 16.  Recalling that the Government did not accept the obligations of Article 11, the Committee is making the following remarks on it for the purpose of clarifying the extent to which effect is already given to the provisions. The Committee notes that the Government contemplates carrying out a study on the labour cost based on statistical sources in existence. It asks the Government to keep the Office informed of any development in this regard (in accordance with Article 6).