Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Convention concerning Statistics of Wages and Hours of Work, 1938 (No. 63) - Barbados (Ratification: 1967)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Compilation of the required statistics. The Committee notes the steps taken to carry out an enhanced quarterly Survey of Employment, Earnings and Hours (SEEH), as well as a new annual Survey of Labour Cost and Occupational Wage Rates. It hopes that once these surveys have been improved, to increase the response rate the Government will be able to compile, publish and transmit to the ILO the statistics required under Parts II and IV of the Convention.

Prospects for the ratification of Convention No. 160. Referring to its previous comments on this subject, the Committee notes that the ratification of Convention No. 160 is currently being considered and that the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) and the Barbados Employers’ Confederation (BEC) have expressed their support for its ratification.