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

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Ratification: 1983)

1. Tripartite consultations required by the Convention. The Committee notes that, in reply to its observation of 2005 on the application of the Convention, the Government sent a communication, dated February 2006, and addressed by the Ministry of Labour to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asking that steps be taken to have the instruments still outstanding submitted to the National Assembly. The Committee hopes that the Government will be able to report that effective consultations were held with the social partners on the proposals put to the National Assembly at the time of the submission of the instruments adopted by the Conference, as required by Article 5, paragraph 1(b), of the Convention.

2. The Committee refers the Government to its earlier observations and again requests it to provide up to date information on the tripartite consultations held on all the subjects covered by the Convention (Articles 2 and 5).

3. Taking into account national circumstances, the Committee once again refers to the resolution concerning tripartism and social dialogue (adopted by the Conference at its 90th Session in 2002), which emphasizes that social dialogue and tripartism have proved to be valuable and democratic means to address social concerns, build consensus, help elaborate international labour standards and examine a wide range of labour issues in which the social partners play a direct, legitimate and irreplaceable role. The Committee trusts that the Government will provide information in its next report on the manner in which the “consultation policies” to which it refers in the report received in 2004 include measures to ensure that the consultations required by Convention No. 144 are carried out with “representative organizations” enjoying freedom of association (Article 1 of the Convention).