Observation on submission to competent authorities (CEACR) - adopted 2021, published 110th ILC session (2022)

Antigua and Barbuda

Failure to submit. The Committee notes with interest the ratification on 28 July 2021 by Antigua and Barbuda of eight Conventions: the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, the Home Work Convention, 1996 (No. 177), the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), the Safety and Health in Agriculture Convention, 2001 (No. 184), the Seafarer’s Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003, as amended (No. 185), the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187), the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188) and the Domestic Workers’ Convention, 2011 (No. 189). The Committee notes that the Government has not, however, provided a reply to its previous observation. It therefore recalls the information provided by the Government in April 2014 that the instruments adopted by the Conference from its 83rd to its 101st Sessions (1996–2012) were resubmitted by the Minister of Labour to the Cabinet of Antigua and Barbuda on 11 March 2014. The Committee reiterates its request that the Government specify the dates on which the 14 instruments adopted by the Conference from its 83rd to its 101st Sessions were submitted to the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda. The Committee also reiterates its request that the Government provide information on the submission to Parliament of the Forced Labour (Supplementary Measures) Recommendation, 2014 (No. 203), adopted by the Conference at its 103rd Session, the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204), adopted by the Conference at its 104th Session, the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205), adopted by the Conference at its 106th Session, and the Violence and Harassment Convention (No. 190) and Recommendation (No. 206), 2019, adopted by the Conference at its 108th Session.