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

Austria

Submission. The Committee notes with interest the ratification of the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190), on 11 September 2024. The Government indicates that a report on the submission of the Violence and Harassment Recommendation, 2019 (No. 206) was also considered by the plenary of the National Council on 4 July 2024. The Committee further notes that the Government reiterates that there is no agreement at the level of the social partners with respect to certain legislative amendments that would be necessary for the ratification of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189). The Government indicates that it is envisaged the submission to the National Council of reports concerning Convention No. 189 and its accompanying Recommendation No. 201, the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204), and the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205). In addition, the competent federal and provincial authorities and the social partners have been asked to provide inputs for the submission report to the Parliament on the Quality Apprenticeships Recommendation, 2023 (No. 208). Lastly, the Government indicates that prospects of ratification of the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) is being considered in connection with the Safe and Healthy Working Environment (Consequential Amendments) Convention (No. 191), and Recommendation, 2023 (No. 207). In this regard, the Committee wishes to highlight once again 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 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 therefore reiterates once again its request that the Government provide information on the submission to the National Council, including specifying the dates of submissions, of the following pending instruments adopted by the Conference at its 100th, 104th and 106th Sessions: the Domestic Workers Convention (No. 189), and Recommendation, 2011 (No. 201); the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204); and the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205). 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.