Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2012, Publicación: 102ª reunión CIT (2013)

Convenio sobre los trabajadores migrantes (disposiciones complementarias), 1975 (núm. 143) - Venezuela (República Bolivariana de) (Ratificación : 1983)

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The Committee notes that according to the Government, the Ministry of People’s Power for Labour and Social Security supervises enterprises that hire foreign workers in order to ensure that their rights are respected and to eliminate any improper working conditions. The Committee observes, however, that the Government’s report contains no information on the points raised in its previous comments. It requests the Government to take the necessary steps to reply to those comments, which are repeated below.

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide information on any situations that have been detected in which migrant workers and undocumented workers are employed in or subjected to abusive conditions, including the number and nationality of such workers and the work they carry out. Please indicate how employers’ and workers’ organizations are consulted and enabled to furnish the information available to them on this matter that they have in their possession.

Article 12. Cooperation of employers’ and workers’ organizations and equality of opportunity and treatment. The Committee recalls the obligation set forth under Articles 10 and 12 of the Convention, according to which each Member undertakes to declare and pursue a national policy designed to promote and to guarantee equality of opportunity and treatment for migrant workers and the members of their families residing lawfully within the territory and to take active and legislative measures to implement this policy. The Committee asks the Government to indicate in its next report the specific measures taken or envisaged in cooperation with the employers’ and workers’ organizations to implement the national policy in accordance with Article 12(a)–(g) of the Convention.

Part V of the report form. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to provide information on legislative instruments or other measures relating to the application of this Convention, including statistics disaggregated by sex, country of origin and sector of activity, in respect of migrant workers residing in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Venezuelan workers abroad, as well as any other relevant information.