The Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention (No. 144) is one of the four governance (priority) conventions of the ILO. The purpose of the Convention is to promote tripartism and social dialogue at the national level through ensuring the involvement of employers’ and workers’ organizations at each stage of ILO’s standards-related activities. Accordingly, it requires that Parties to the Convention hold effective consultations between government, employers’ and workers’ representatives at each stage of the standards-related activities of the ILO. Ratifying countries have an obligation to report every three years on the measures taken, in law and in practice, to apply the Convention.

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