Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2012, publiée 102ème session CIT (2013)

Convention (n° 144) sur les consultations tripartites relatives aux normes internationales du travail, 1976 - République démocratique du Congo (Ratification: 2001)

Articles 2 and 5(1) of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received. In its observation of 2010, the Committee noted the ministerial orders adopted after consultation of the National Labour Council in order to apply the Labour Code and the reports of the extraordinary meetings of the National Labour Council held in July 2005 and March 2008. In a brief report received in June 2011, the Government indicated that it will provide relevant information in the future on the effective submission to Parliament of the 28 instruments adopted at the 13 sessions of the Conference held between 1996 and 2010. The Committee refers the Government to its observation concerning the serious failure to submit the instruments adopted by the Conference with respect to the obligation established in article 19(5) and (6) of the ILO Constitution. It requests the Government to report on consultations held with the social partners concerning the proposals made to Parliament on the occasion of the submission of the instruments adopted by the Conference. The Committee hopes that the Government will be in a position to announce further progress on tripartite consultations held on each of the matters relating to international labour standards covered by the Convention.

Article 3. Choice of employers’ and workers’ representatives. The Committee recalled in its previous observation that trade union elections were held for the fifth time between October 2008 and July 2009. It requests the Government to indicate who were the employers’ and workers’ representatives chosen for the purpose of tripartite consultations covered by the Convention and to state the manner in which it was ensured that they were freely chosen by their representative organizations.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2013.]