Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2001, publiée 90ème session CIT (2002)

The Committee notes the Government’s first report, received in June 2000, on the application of the Convention. It would be grateful if the Government would provide in its next report further information on the practical application of the Convention, including indications on the following matters.

Article 4, paragraph 2, of the Convention. The Government indicates that it always invites the Jamaica Employers’ Federation (JEF) and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) to send representatives to all seminars and workshops on ILO and labour-related matters, and that they include, but are not restricted to, training and consultative procedures. Please provide information on any arrangements made for financing any necessary training of participants in the consultative procedures.

Article 5. The Government has provided in its report information on the consultations held with social partners in relation to the steps taken in order to submit to the Cabinet the instruments adopted by the Conference on unratified Conventions and on the Committee’s comments. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would include in its next report further particulars of the consultations on each of the matters set out in paragraph 1 (replies to questionnaires, submission to Parliament of all instruments adopted by the Conference, re-examination of unratified Conventions, article 22 reports, proposals for denunciation), including information as to the frequency of such consultations. Please also indicate the nature of any reports or recommendations made as a result of the consultations.

Article 6. Please give particulars of any consultations that may have taken place with the representative organizations on the question of issuing an annual report on the working of the procedures provided for in the Convention.