The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office,
and having met in its Sixty-first Session on 2 June 1976, and
Recalling the terms of existing international labour Conventions and Recommendations
- in particular the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948, the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949, and the Consultation (Industrial and National Levels) Recommendation, 1960
- which affirm the right of employers and workers to establish free and independent
organisations and call for measures to promote effective consultation at the national
level between public authorities and employers' and workers' organisations, as well
as the provisions of numerous international labour Conventions and Recommendations
which provide for the consultation of employers' and workers' organisations on measures
to give effect thereto, and
Having considered the fourth item on the agenda of the session which is entitled “Establishment
of tripartite machinery to promote the implementation of international labour standards”,
and having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals concerning tripartite consultations
to promote the implementation of international labour standards and national action
relating to the activities of the International Labour Organisation, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation,
adopts this twenty-first day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy-six
the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Tripartite Consultation (Activities
of the International Labour Organisation) Recommendation, 1976: