Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Antigua and Barbuda (Ratification: 2002)

Effective tripartite consultations required by the Convention. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in August 2013 in reply to its previous comments. The Government reiterates that the National Labour Board is established under section B7 of the Labour Code and its responsibilities are laid out therein. The Committee notes however that the matters set out in Article 5(1) of the Convention are not referred to in the Labour Code. The Committee once again requests the Government to provide detailed information on the activities of the National Labour Board on matters regarding international labour standards covered by the Convention. It also requests the Government to include in its next report detailed and updated information on the tripartite consultations held concerning each of the matters covered by Article 5(1) of the Convention.

Article 5(1)(b). Submission to Parliament. The Government indicates in its report that all instruments adopted by the Conference were submitted to Parliament. The Committee refers to its observation on the obligation of submission as provided for in article 19, paragraphs 5 and 6, of the ILO Constitution. The Committee once again requests the Government to report on the effective consultations held with respect to proposals made to the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda in connection with the submission of the instruments adopted by the Conference, including indications of the date on which the instruments were submitted to Parliament.

Article 5(1)(c). Examination of unratified Conventions and Recommendations. The Government indicates in its report that it notes the comments made by the Committee with regards to the examination of unratified Conventions. The Committee recalls its previous comments and invites the Government to re-examine some unratified Conventions with its social partners, in particular the Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129), which is deemed a governance Convention; the Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970 (No. 132), which revises the Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14), and the Holidays with Pay (Agriculture) Convention, 1952 (No. 101), to which Antigua and Barbuda is a State party; and the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185), which revises the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention, 1958 (No. 108), that has also been ratified by Antigua and Barbuda.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2014.]