Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Slovakia (Ratification: 1997)

Articles 2 and 5 of the Convention. Effective tripartite consultations. The Committee notes the Government’s general indication that tripartite consultations were held during the reporting period on each of the matters related to international labour standards covered by Article 5(1) of the Convention: (i) responses to the questionnaires on the 2017 and 2019 Conference agenda items related to the prevention of forced or compulsory labour, victim protection and access to remedies as well as to the abrogation of Conventions Nos 21, 50, 64, 65, 86 and 104 and the withdrawal of Recommendations Nos 7, 61 and 62 (Article 5(1)(a)); (ii) submission to the competent authority of instruments adopted by Conference (Article 5(1)(b)); (iii) the re-examination of unratified Conventions and Recommendations to which effect has not yet been given (Article 5(1)(c)); (iv) reports on the application of ratified Conventions (Article 5(1)(d)); and (v) proposals for the denunciation of ratified Conventions (Article 5(1)(e)). The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide further detailed updated information on the frequency, the content and the outcome of the tripartite consultations held on all matters concerning international labour standards covered by Article 5(1) of the Convention.

Tripartite consultations regarding issues mentioned by the Tripartite Consultations (Activities of the International Labour Organisation) Recommendation, 1976 (No. 152). The Committee notes that, in its observations, the Association of Industrial Unions (AIU) claims that no effective tripartite consultations were held within the Council on several amendments to the national labour legislation adopted between 2017 and 2019, including the Labour Code (Paragraph 5(c) of Recommendation No. 152). The AIU argues that tripartite consultations were only held formally, as the submitters of the legislative proposals were not willing to accept any comments or suggestions of the social partners. The Government indicates that the pointed-out proposals were submitted to the social partners within the Council prior to its submission to the Parliament. Stressing the importance of social dialogue and consultation with employers’ and workers’ organizations in the context of the preparation and development of labour legislation as envisaged by the Tripartite Consultations Recommendation (No. 152) (Paragraph 5(c)), the Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate the nature and the impact of the measures taken to strengthen the consultations of the social partners in the law-making process.