Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2017, published 107th ILC session (2018)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Slovakia (Ratification: 1997)

Article 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. The Committee notes the information provided in the Government’s report. The Government indicates that tripartite consultations at the national level among the State and the social partners in the field of economic and social development and development of employment are supported by Act No. 103/2007, Coll. on Tripartite Consultations at the National Level and on Amending and Supplementing Certain Acts (the Tripartite Act). The Government indicates that the matters related to international labour standards covered under Article 5 of the Convention are addressed within the Economic and Social Council of the Slovak Republic, a consulting and coordinating body of the Government and of the social partners at the national level. Furthermore, the Government indicates that the draft reports on ratified and unratified conventions and recommendations prepared by the Government are sent to the social partners who can send proposals for amendments to the Government before these are submitted to the ILO. The Government adds that, as needed, the representatives of the Government and the social partners also meet in an ad hoc working group which discusses various ILO-related issues at the national level. The Committee notes that the Government’s report contains no information in reply to its previous comments requesting that the Government provide further information on the consultations held on the matters relating to international labour standards covered by the Convention. The Committee therefore reiterates its request that the Government provide detailed information on the content and outcome of the tripartite consultations held on all matters concerning international labour standards covered by the Convention and other matters concerning the activities of the ILO, particularly relating to the questionnaires on the Conference agenda items (Article 5(1)(a)); the submission of instruments adopted by the Conference to Parliament (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 proposals for the denunciation of ratified Conventions (Article 5(1)(e)).