Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Dock Work Convention, 1973 (No. 137) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1975)

1. The Committee notes with interest the information supplied by the Government with regard to the application of Articles 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the Convention. It requests the Government, in its future reports, to continue supplying information in this respect, and to give the indications required under parts IV and V of the report form.

2. Article 2. The Committee notes, in particular, that employees of the Directorate of Port Operations of the Costa Rican Pacific Harbours Institute, with the exception of administrative officials, work according to the movements of vessels. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes that this provision of the Convention requires that, in so far as practicable, dockworkers shall be provided with permanent or regular employment and, in any case, dockworkers shall be assured minimum periods of employment or a minimum income, in a manner and to an extent depending on the economic and social situation of the country and port concerned. In this connection, the Committee trusts that the Government will supply supplementary information in its next report on the application of the above provision of the Convention. Please also indicate the measures that have been adopted to encourage all concerned to provide permanent or regular employment (paragraph 1), or describe how the minimum requirements regarding employment and income are assured (paragraph 2).