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

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Ratification: 1983)

The Committee notes the observations of the Independent Trade Union Alliance Confederation of Workers (CTASI), received on 28 May and 29 August 2018. The Committee also notes the observations of the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) and the Federation of Chambers and Associations of Commerce and Production of Venezuela (FEDECAMARAS), received on 1 September 2018.

The Committee recalls that, at its 329th Session (March 2017), the Governing Body declared admissible a complaint concerning non-observance by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela of the Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26), the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), and the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144), made under article 26 of the ILO Constitution by several Employers’ delegates to the 104th Session (2015) of the International Labour Conference, and at its 332nd Session (March 2018), the Governing Body decided that a commission of inquiry would be established. In these circumstances, and in accordance with usual practice which suspends the functioning of the supervisory machinery during the period of operation of a commission of inquiry, the Committee will renew its supervision of the application of the Convention in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela once the commission has concluded its work.