Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2018, published 108th ILC session (2019)

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

The Committee notes the observations made by the Confederation of Workers’ Unions of Mali (CSTM), received on 7 September 2017. Nevertheless, the Committee notes that the Government’s report does not respond to these observations.

Article 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. In its previous comments, the Committee requested the Government to report the progress made in establishing the National Social Dialogue Council or any other procedure for holding effective tripartite consultations on international labour standards. Nevertheless, the Committee notes that the National Social Dialogue Council has not yet been established. The Government indicates that a draft decree establishing the National Social Dialogue Council has been drawn up and will be submitted to the social partners for consultation in due course. The Government adds that reports on international labour standards are sent to the social partners for their observations. In this regard, the Committee notes the observations of the CSTM indicating that it has not received the reports on Conventions Nos 6, 26, 81, 87 and 95. Consequently, the CSTM has not had the opportunity to make observations in that regard. The Committee requests the Government to undertake a new examination, in consultation with the representative organizations concerned, of the ways in which it is ensured that the representative organizations of employers and workers effectively participate in the tripartite consultations on international labour standards required under the Convention. It also requests the Government to keep it informed of any developments regarding the decree establishing the National Social Dialogue Council and to provide a copy following its adoption.

Article 5(1)(c). Re-examination of unratified Conventions. The Committee notes with interest that Conventions Nos 88, 122, 155 and its Protocol of 2002, 181 and the Protocol of 2014 to Convention No. 29, ratified by Mali on 12 April 2016, entered into force on 12 April 2017. The Government indicates that the social partners were consulted before the ratification of the aforementioned Conventions. In that regard, given that the Malian economy is mainly agricultural, the Committee invites the Government to examine, in consultation with the social partners, the possibility of ratifying the Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129), a Convention that the 2008 ILO Declaration on Social Justice identified as one of the most significant standards from the viewpoint of governance. The Committee requests the Government to continue providing information on the consultations regarding the re-examination at appropriate intervals of unratified Conventions and Recommendations to which effect has not yet been given, particularly Convention No. 129.