Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Mali (Ratification: 2008)

Article 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in February 2014 indicating that consultations on international labour standards are held following written communications (official correspondence) and meetings (the organization of tripartite workshops). The Government indicates that the consultations held have related to: government replies to ILO questionnaires on items on the Conference agenda; reports to be made under articles 19 and 22 of the ILO Constitution; and replies provided in the context of general surveys. The Government adds in its report that the social partners very frequently do not provide their comments, or do so too late. The Committee also notes the statement by the Confederation of Workers’ Unions of Mali (CSTM), forwarded by the Government in December 2013, indicating that in Mali for over a decade tripartite consultations have been discriminatory and multiple trade unions have been excluded. The Committee refers to paragraphs 34–38 of its 2000 General Survey on tripartite consultation. In the General Survey, the Committee indicates that, although the Convention requires that the most representative organizations of employers and workers participate in consultations, it does not in any way prevent the involvement of representatives of other organizations. The Committee observes that, as the term “representative organizations” is used in the plural, the Convention encourages governments to associate with these procedures representative organizations which have shown an interest in participating in the tripartite consultations required by the Convention. The Committee therefore invites the Government to examine once again, in consultation with the representative organizations concerned, the procedures which ensure that representative organizations of employers and workers participate effectively in the tripartite consultations on international labour standards required by the Convention. The Committee also invites the Government to provide more specific information on the operation and effectiveness of consultation procedures on international labour standards.

Article 5(1)(b). Submission to the National Assembly. The Committee recalls that the Government is required to provide information on the submission to the National Assembly of the Protocols of 1996 and 2002, as well as on the instruments adopted by the Conference at its 86th, 92nd, 94th, 95th, 96th, 99th, 100th and 101st Sessions. It invites the Government to provide information on the tripartite consultations held concerning the submission to the National Assembly of the instruments adopted by the Conference.

Article 5(1)(c) and (e). Re-examination of unratified Conventions. In reply to the Committee’s previous comments, the Government indicates that it does not for the time being envisage ratifying the Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129), or the Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970 (No. 132), in view of the technical difficulties that could arise in their effective implementation, of which the informality predominating in the agricultural sector is not the least. The Committee notes with interest that the departments responsible for employment and labour have agreed to ratify the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), in light of all the action taken in the field of employment promotion. The Committee hopes that the process of ratifying Convention No. 122 will be completed in the near future and that the Government will be in a position to transmit the instrument of ratification to the Office.