Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Tajikistan (Ratification: 2014)

Articles 2 and 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that the Tripartite Commission on Regulation of Social and Labour Relations’ main tasks include holding of tripartite consultations on matters related to the ratification and application of international labour standards. Moreover, the Government reiterates that tripartite constituents are involved in the elaboration process of reports on ratified Conventions and a copy of the final reports is forwarded to the social partners for their approval. The Committee notes the detailed information provided by the Government on the set of measures taken to promote social dialogue during the reporting period, such as the signing of General Tripartite Agreement between the Government, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Tajikistan, and the Employers’ Association of the Republic of Tajikistan for 2021–23, on 31 December 2020. With a view to implementing the General Agreement, the Action Plan for 2021–23 was adopted, whose implementation monitoring is carried out every six months by the parties within the Tripartite Agreement Commission. The Government adds that the social partners’ views are taken into account in the process of developing national legislation, policies and measures in labour and social-related matters, and their approval is required before the submission of legal and regulatory acts to the Government. The Committee observes, however, that the Government does not provide specific information on the fundamental obligation established under the Convention, which is holding tripartite consultations on each of the matters related to international labour standards covered by Article 5(1) of the Convention and duly informing in its periodic reports the nature and outcome of these consultations. The Committee therefore urges the Government to provide updated specific information on the frequency, the content and the outcome of the tripartite consultations held on each of the matters related to international labour standards covered by Article (1) of the Convention, including: (i) questionnaires concerning items on the agenda of the International Labour Conference (Article 5(1)(a)); (ii) proposals to be made in connection with the submission to the Supreme Council of instruments adopted by the Conference (Article 5(1)(b)); (iii) the re-examination at appropriate intervals of unratified Conventions and of Recommendations to which effect has not yet been given (Article 5(1)(c)); (iv) reports to be made on the application of ratified Conventions (Article 5(1)(d)); and (v) proposals for the denunciation of ratified Conventions (Article 5(1)(e)).

Article 4. Administrative support. Training on consultative procedures. The Committee observes that the Government’s report does not include information on how effect is given to this provision of the Convention. The Government indicates that, in the framework of ILO projects, measures are being taken to enhance the national capacity to apply ILO procedures and fulfil statutory obligations with regard to international labour standards. However, it does not specify the content of such measures and if they include training for the representatives of workers’ and employers’ organizations participating in the consultation procedures required by the Convention. Lastly, the Committee observes that the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) of the Republic of Tajikistan for 2020–24 provides for the adoption of measures to strengthen the capacities of tripartite constituents and social dialogue institutions to address priority labour issues. While recalling that under the terms of Article 4(2) of the Convention, “appropriate arrangements shall be made” between the competent authority and the representative organizations “for the financing of any necessary training of participants” in the consultation procedures,the Committee urges the Government to describe the manner in which effect is given to this provision of the Convention. It also requests the Government to provide information on the specific training activities aimed at the participants in the consultation procedures, including those undertaken in the framework of the DWCP 2020-24.