Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1995, publiée 83ème session CIT (1996)

Convention (n° 144) sur les consultations tripartites relatives aux normes internationales du travail, 1976 - Pologne (Ratification: 1993)

1. The Committee notes with interest the Government's first report. It notes the information contained in the report concerning the Polish Tripartite Committee for Cooperation. It notes that this body, which was established prior to the ratification of the Convention by Regulation No. 1 of 6 January 1990, is entrusted with responsibility, among other matters, for examining the questions enumerated in Article 5, paragraph 1(a), (b), (c) and (d), of the Convention; that employers' and workers' organizations are represented on it on an equal footing, in accordance with the requirements of Article 3, paragraph 2; and that the frequency of its meetings complies with the provisions of Article 5, paragraph 2. The Committee also notes that, in conformity with Article 4, paragraph 1, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy is responsible for the administrative support of the procedures and the operating cost of the Committee.

2. The Committee wishes to draw the Government's attention to the need, in order to enable the supervisory bodies to ensure the application of the Convention, to supply the Office with all the information required under the report form prepared for this purpose by the Governing Body. It emphasizes in particular the need to provide detailed information on a regular basis on: (i) the precise objective of the tripartite consultations held during the period covered by the reports, on each of the matters set out in Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Convention; (ii) the frequency of the consultations; and (iii) the nature of any recommendations made by the Tripartite Committee for Cooperation.

3. Furthermore, the Government is asked to provided further information in its next report on the following points:

Article 2. Please provide a copy of the text issuing the rules respecting the work of the Tripartite Committee on Cooperation which, by virtue of section 5 of Regulation No. 1 of 6 January 1990, govern the procedure for the adoption of decisions as a result of the consultations held in the Committee.

Article 4. Please provide information on any appropriate arrangements that have been made with the representative organizations, as envisaged in paragraph 2, for the financing of any necessary training of participants in the consultation procedures covered by the Convention, the necessity of which was emphasized in the national seminar on tripartite consultation held in 1991. Where appropriate, please give a description of such arrangements.

Article 6. Please indicate whether an annual report on the working of the consultation procedures was produced or whether it is planned to produced one. If not, the Government is requested to hold the consultations envisaged under this Article on this matter in the near future and to provide the Office with information on these consultations.

Points III, IV, V and VI of the report form. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide the information requested when any new development occurs relating to these points.