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

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Iceland (Ratification: 1981)

Article 5 of the Convention. Tripartite consultations required by the Convention. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government on the tripartite consultations held between 1 June 2015 and 31 May 2018. The Government indicates that the Icelandic Tripartite ILO Committee held two meetings in 2015, four meetings in 2016, four meetings in 2017 and two meetings between January 2018 and May 2018. The Committee notes that consultations on questions concerning the items on the agenda of the International Labour Conference and questions arising out of reports to the ILO were among the Icelandic ILO Committee’s main areas of work. The Icelandic ILO Committee also took part in the preparation of the reports delivered by the Minister for Social Affairs to the Icelandic Parliament in relation to the submission of instruments adopted by the Conference. The Committee notes with interest the ratification of the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, on 14 June 2017, as well as of the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187), on 1 June 2018, following tripartite consultations. The Government indicates that work on the possible ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006), has continued in the Ministry of Transport and Local Government, and consists of preparing bills amending current legislation and proposals for new legislation to meet the requirements of the MLC, 2006. The Committee notes that the Icelandic ILO Committee drafted guidelines to assist with the examination of the possible ratification of ILO Conventions, which were unanimously adopted in April 2017. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on the content and outcome of the tripartite consultations held on the matters covered by the Convention, particularly relating to questionnaires on Conference agenda items (Article 5(1)(a)); the submission of instruments adopted by the Conference to the National Assembly (Article 5(1)(b); the re-examination at appropriate intervals of unratified Conventions and Recommendations to which effect has not yet been given (Article 5(1)(c)); questions arising out of reports to be presented on the application of ratified Conventions (Article 5(1)(d)); and the possible denunciation of ratified Conventions (Article 5(1)(e)).