Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Labour Administration Convention, 1978 (No. 150) - Mexico (Ratification: 1982)

The Committee notes the Government’s report for the period ending 30 May 2005, submitted in response to its previous comments. It also notes the Act of 3 April 2003 on careers in the federal public administration and the regulations of 31 March 2004 issued for its implementation. The Committee also notes the statistics tables concerning: (i) occupational training activities; (ii) the awarding of grants during the 1999-2004 period; (iii) collective agreements negotiated in different branches of activity; (iv) collective labour disputes; and (v) complaints received by the labour administration services and advice given between 1999 and 2005.

1. Articles 5 and 6, paragraph 2(c), of the Convention. Consultation, cooperation and negotiation between the public authorities and the most representative organizations of employers and workers or employers’ and workers’ representatives. In reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes the Government’s indications that the national development plan is drawn up by the federal executive power on the basis of considerations, proposals and requests put forward by citizens and social groups within the framework of public consultations and, in the field of labour, on the basis of the results of consultations with employers and workers held by the Secretariat for Labour and Social Insurance with a view to the promotion of new jobs, the improvement of the working environment, so as to increase the productivity of enterprises, and the development of training for workers. The Committee notes with interest that the Government maintains a permanent dialogue with numerous workers’ organizations, as well as with representatives of workers in the public and private sectors of all branches of economic activity (Confederation of Workers of Mexico, Revolutionary Confederation of Workers and Farmers, Trade Union Association of Pilots of Mexico, Trade Union Federation of State Employees, Trade Union of Oil Workers, Chemical Industry Workers and Television Workers, etc.), on specific problems and on activities relating to trade unions, labour justice, occupational training, and occupational safety and hygiene. The Committee is also interested to note that the bodies responsible for workers’ housing, wage protection, conciliation and arbitration, and occupational safety, hygiene and health, work in collaboration with the social partners both at national and federated state level (National Joint Committee on Wage Protection, Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Council, local conciliation and arbitration councils, safety and hygiene advisory committees of different states, Council for Dialogue with the Productive Sectors, etc.).

2. Part V of the report form. The Committee is interested to note the activities undertaken in collaboration with the ILO between 2001 and 2005, in particular the preparation of a study on working days and the organization of work in Mexico, conciliation and mediation training, the launching, in 2004, of a project to strengthen institutional mechanisms of social dialogue, the carrying out of an audit on the effectiveness of local conciliation and arbitration councils, and the implementation of a project on methods for assessing occupational safety policies. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would keep the ILO informed of the impact of the abovementioned activities on the functioning of the labour administration system and on the results achieved with regard to objectives.

The Committee is addressing a request directly to the Government on a number of points.