Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2021, published 110th ILC session (2022)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Trinidad and Tobago (Ratification: 1995)

Article 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government concerning the work of the ILO 144 Tripartite Consultative Committee (hereafter the “TCC”) following its reconstitution in February 2018 for a two-year term. The Government indicates in general terms that the TCC reviewed the fundamental ILO Conventions, which have been ratified by Trinidad and Tobago, with a view to assessing their status and extent of implementation in the country. It also reviewed and approved reports on ratified Conventions to be submitted to the ILO under article 22 of the ILO Constitution for 2017, 2018 and 2019. The Government further reports that the TCC considered the country’s position with regard to three items on the agenda of the 107th Session of the International Labour Conference in 2018, including on the proposed instruments on violence and harassment against women and men in the world of work. Finally, the Government reports that the TCC reviewed the following instruments with a view to promoting their implementation and ratification, as appropriate: the Nursing Personnel Convention, 1977 (No. 149); the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189); the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) and Recommendation, 2019 (No. 206); and the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930. The Government does not, however, indicate the outcome of these consultations. The Committee recalls in this regard that, while Article 5(1)(b) of Convention No. 144 requires consultations to be held prior to submitting new instruments adopted by the Conference to the competent authorities, Article 5(1)(c) of the Convention requires that consultations be held on the re-examination, at appropriate intervals, of unratified Conventions and of Recommendations to which effect has not yet been given. The latter provision calls for a continuous process of review with a programme spread over a period of time [see the General Survey concerning the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) and the Tripartite Consultation (Activities of the International Labour Organisation) Recommendation, 1976 (No. 152), 2000, Paragraph 89]. The Committee requests the Government to provide information concerning the status of the TCC following the end of its 2018–20 term, and on the content and outcome of tripartite consultations held on the matters concerning international labour standards covered by Article 5(1)(a)–(e) of the Convention, including information as to the frequency of these consultations since 2020. In particular, the Committee requests the Government to indicate the content and outcome of consultations concerning the submission of new instruments adopted by the International Labour Conference to the competent authorities (Article 5(1)(b)), and the re-examination of unratified Conventions and of Recommendations at appropriate intervals (Article 5(1)(c)). The Committee further requests the Government to provide information on the outcome of consultations concerning the possible ratification of: the Nursing Personnel Convention, 1977 (No. 149); the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189); the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) and Recommendation, 2019 (No. 206); and the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930.