Direct Request on submission to competent authorities (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Jordan

Submission. The Committee notes that the Government has not replied to its previous comments. It recalls once more that the constitutional obligation of submission is of the highest importance and is a fundamental element of the standards system of the ILO. The Committee recalls the information provided by the Government in September 2023 indicating that, following consultations with the social partners, the necessary measures would be taken to issue a Council of Ministers’ decision regarding the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204), and the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205). The Government also indicated that, on 29 June 2022, the Tripartite Committee for Labour Affairs had decided that the Government should proceed with the ratification of the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190). The Government further indicated that communications with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Affairs and other relevant authorities concerned were envisaged to request for their opinion in accordance with the Prime Minister’s Circular No. (20/11/23/27129) of 28 October 2022 regarding procedure to be followed for, inter alia, the ratification of conventions. In this respect, the Committee highlighted that the completion of the submission process does not require a decision to ratify a Convention or Protocol. The Committee refers to the 2005 Memorandum concerning the obligation to submit Conventions and Recommendations to the competent authorities, where it is noted that the main aim of submission is to promote measures at the domestic level for the implementation of Conventions and Recommendations, as well as to promote ratification of Conventions. Governments remain entirely free to propose any action which they may judge appropriate in respect of ILO instruments. One purpose of this obligation is that the instruments adopted by the Conference are brought to the knowledge of the public through their submission to a parliamentary body (Memorandum, Part I(a)–(c)). The Committee therefore once again reiterates its request that the Government provide information on the submission to the House of Representatives (Majlis Al-Nuwaab) of the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204), adopted at the 104th Session of the Conference, the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205), adopted by the Conference at its 106th Session, and the Violence and Harassment Convention (No. 190) and Recommendation (No. 206), 2019, adopted by the Conference at its 108th Session. The Committee trusts that the Government will provide the information requested without further delay. It also requests the Government to provide information on the submission of the Safe and Healthy Working Environment (Consequential Amendments) Convention (No. 191) and Recommendation, 2023 (No. 207) and the Quality Apprenticeships Recommendation, 2023 (No. 208), adopted by the Conference at its 111th Session.