6.4.Direct contacts mission

providing for modalities of negotiation that take due account of the special characteristics and issues raised by wage setting in the public service.

The right to strike in air transport

The Colombian Trade Union Central, with support from the Trade Union

Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) and the International Transport

Workers' Federation, used the technical concept to ask questions related to the exercise of the right to strike in air transport. The Office's answers are available here: http://ail.ens.org.co/wp-content/uploads/ sites/3/2018/11/Concepto-tecnico-OIT-sobre-huelga-de-Acdac.pdf

6.4. Direct contact mission

Direct contact missions support the procedures of the bodies of the ILO supervisory system (ILO Committee of Experts, Committee on the Application of Standards, Committee on Freedom of Association, and ad hoc committees set up under Article 24 of the ILO Constitution). Direct contacts missions are a resource that can have important political impacts with a view to opening up channels of dialogue and negotiation. They can be requested by trade unions, for example in the tripartite discussions in the framework of the examination of individual cases ("short list") at the Committee on the Application of Standards. According to the ILO Manual of Procedures,22 these missions consist of sending a representative of the Director-General of the ILO to a country that is the subject of a supervisory procedure in order to seek solutions to difficulties encountered in the application of conventions that have been ratified or in the implementation of the recommendations of the supervisory bodies. When the difficulties are of a practical nature, the direct contacts mission focuses particularly on analyzing the situation in practice. Direct contacts missions have also been sent to countries to provide technical assistance, which can take the form of advice on the type of measures to be taken and assistance in drafting amendments to national legislation, or in establishing procedures to facilitate the implementation of obligations. The representative of the DirectorGeneral may be an ILO official or an independent person appointed by the Director-General (supreme court judge, a university professor, a member of the ILO Committee of Experts, etc.) whose mission is to clarify facts and examine the possibilities of resolving the problems raised. The representative of the DirectorGeneral and the members of the mission must provide all the necessary guarantees of objectivity

22. Handbook of procedures relating to international labour Conventions and Recommendations. ILO, 2019, pp. 98-103.