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

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1981)

Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Convention. Tripartite consultations required by the Convention. The Committee notes the Government’s report for the period ending May 2007. The Government emphasized the consultations that are being held in the Higher Labour Council, particularly those aimed at formulating the National Employment Plan. It also attached the detailed reports of the meetings held in February, March and April 2007 in which a number of questions relating to international labour standards were raised. The report of 14 March 2007 included a draft workplan of the Higher Labour Council including a point on “prioritizing Conventions – analysis and positions on several Conventions”. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information in its next report on the consultations held in the Higher Labour Council on international labour standards (questionnaires relating to the Conference agenda, submission of the instruments adopted by the Conference to the Legislative Assembly, reports due on the application of ratified Conventions, prospects of ratification, denunciation of Conventions).