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Labour Administration Convention, 1978 (No. 150) - Democratic Republic of the Congo (RATIFICATION: 1987)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report does not fully reply to its previous comments. It hopes that the next report will include full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee notes the Government’s report of 1996 replying to its previous comments. It also notes the appended regulatory texts including those of 1969 referred to previously, one concerning the organization of the National Manpower Service and the other, the organizational chart of the National Employment Service, as well as the following: Order of 28 May 1993 accrediting the Institute of Safety, Health and Improvement of the Workplace (ISHE); Order No. 006-94 of 23 November 1994 repealing Order No. 64 of 14 June 1994 on the functioning of bodies responsible for the prevention of occupational risks; Order of 29 April 1996 repealing the Order of 6 July 1993 establishing the name, registered office and territorial coverage of the general labour inspectorate; Orders Nos. 0027-73 of 28 August 1973 and 007-94 of 29 November 1994 concerning, respectively, the operation and the tripartite composition of the National Labour Council; Order No. 0033-74 of 19 February 1974 (revised) establishing the technical directorate of the Office for the Supervision of Safety and Health at Work; Order of 9 July 1993 establishing a tripartite committee to be responsible for revising the Labour Code and the new inter-occupational collective labour agreement (CCINT). The Committee would be grateful if the Government would state whether these texts are still in force or have been amended or superseded and, in particular, whether the abovementioned tripartite bodies have actually been established and are operating and, if so, to provide information on their operation and the results of their work to date.

In reply to the question of the extension of the labour administration system to the categories of workers covered by Article 7 of the Convention, the Committee notes that the Employment Directorate of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare has an employment promotion which is responsible for studying and developing the cooperative movement in the informal sector and establishing multipurpose training facilities for the sector. The Government is asked to provide information on how this service operates in practice and to specify the categories of workers considered as non-wage earners who are concerned by training facilities which already exist or are planned.

Lastly, noting the Government’s request for technical assistance addressed to the ILO in 1997, in which it suggests that an exploratory mission should precede and determine the intervention of experts with a view to an in-depth audit of the Ministry of Labour, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would send available information on the results of the contacts made with the ILO’s competent technical assistance bodies. The Government is also asked to provide details of the present position and operation of the labour administration system, giving the names and describing the nature of public and private bodies and institutions which perform or contribute to the performance of labour administration duties.