Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Azerbaijan (Ratification: 1993)

1. Article 5 of the Convention. Tripartite consultations required by the Convention. In reply to its 2005 direct request, the Committee notes the Government’s report for the period ending in May 2007, which includes updated information on the consultations held with the social partners in order to ratify Conventions Nos 156 and 183. Consultations are also ongoing with regard to Conventions Nos 168, 173 and 184. The Committee notes with interest that the ratification of Convention No. 185 was registered in July 2006. The Committee would appreciate continuing to receive information on the consultations held in relation to all the matters covered by the Convention.

2. Article 5, paragraph 1(b). Tripartite consultations on the proposals before submission of the instruments adopted by the Conference to Parliament. The Government indicates in its report that only after concluding all the relevant consultation procedures between the social partners, proposals for ratification are submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers and then to Parliament (the Mili Majlis). The Committee refers to its comments in relation to the constitutional obligation to submit to Parliament the instruments adopted by the Conference (article 19, paragraphs 5 and 6, of the ILO Constitution), and reiterates its hope that the Government will soon be in a position to announce that all the pending instruments adopted by the Conference have been submitted to Parliament.