Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2002, published 91st ILC session (2003)

The Committee notes the Government’s brief report on the French Southern and Antarctic Territories.

The Committee notes the Government’s statement that there are no legislative amendments with respect to seafarers and that there is no discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, sex, age or status between national and foreign seafarers. In this respect, the Committee is bound to reiterate that the prohibited grounds of discrimination under Article 1, paragraph (1)(a), of the Convention are: race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin, and any other grounds that may be specified after consultation with the representative employers’ and workers’ organizations in accordance with the provisions of Article 1, paragraph 1(b). The Committee requests the Government to provide information with its next report on the measures adopted or envisaged to promote the principle of equal treatment in employment and occupation in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories. It also hopes that the Government will provide statistical information requested earlier on the nationalities of crews on ships registered in the Territories and the wage levels applied.