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

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Switzerland (Ratification: 2000)

Article 5 of the Convention. Effective consultations undertaken during the period covered by the report. The Government indicates that the Tripartite Federal Commission has met 13 times since the submission of the previous report in August 2017: on 1 December 2017, 16 April 2018, 4 December 2018, 9 April 2019, 27 May 2019, 28 November 2019, 31 March 2020, 4 September 2020, 8 December 2020, 9 April 2021, 9 September 2021, 2 December 2021 and 8 April 2022. The Committee notes with interest that during this period, the Swiss Confederation ratified the Chemicals Convention, 1990 (No. 170), as well as the Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents Convention, 1993 (No. 174) and the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930. The Committee also notes with interest consultations in the Tripartite Federal Commission on possible ratification of the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190). As the report does not provide information on the outcome or recommendations resulting from these consultations in the Tripartite Federal Commission, the Committee requests the Government to provide detailed information on the tripartite consultations held on the matters referred to in Article 5(1) of the Convention, including information on the frequency of such consultations. It also requests the Government to specify the nature of the reports or recommendations resulting from these consultations.