Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2023, published 112nd ILC session (2024)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ratification: 2001)

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Articles 2 and 5 of the Convention. Tripartite consultations. The Government indicates that it has sent the competent national authority a submission report on ten instruments adopted by the International Labour Conference between 2010 and 2019. The Government also indicates that seven ordinary sessions and one special session of the National Labour Council (CNT) were held between 2013 and 2021. It states that, at its last session, the CNT examined and adopted a draft decree establishing the High Council for Social Dialogue. The Committee notes with deep regret, however, that the Government’s report still contains no response to its previous comments, reiterated since 2013. Concerning the serious failure to submit the instruments adopted by the International Labour Conference, laid down in article 19(5) and (6) of the ILO Constitution, the Committee refers to its comment of 2023 on submission to the competent authorities and once again reiterates its request to the Government to provide information on the consultations held with the social partners prior to the submission of instruments. The Committee recalls that the instruments in respect of which the Government has yet to fulfil its obligation to submit them to the competent authority concern those adopted at the 99th, 100th, 101st, 103rd, 104th, 106th, 108th and 111th Sessions, or 9 Recommendations, 3 Conventions and 1 Protocol. As to the frequency, the content and the results of the consultations held on all the questions covered by Article 5(1) of the Convention, the Government once again reiterates its request for detailed information in this regard (that is, for each consultation, the date, the subject and the position adopted at the end of the consultation).

COVID-19 pandemic. The Committee notes the information provided in response to its previous comment on the use of tripartite consultations to formulate responses to the socio-economic repercussions of the pandemic.