Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2006, publiée 96ème session CIT (2007)

National policy with respect to political opinion, social origin and national extraction. For a number of years, the Committee has been stressing the importance of declaring and pursuing a national equality policy covering all the grounds enumerated in the Convention. In this context, it has also been requesting the Government to provide information regarding any legislative or other measures taken or envisaged aimed at the application of the principle of prohibiting discrimination in employment and occupation on the basis of political opinion, social origin and national extraction. The Committee regrets that the Government has once more omitted to provide additional information in this regard. The Committee therefore urges the Government to include in its next report detailed information on all the measures taken to ensure that no discrimination on the basis of political opinion, social origin and national extraction occurs in practice in relation to employment and occupation.

The Committee is raising other points in a request directly addressed to the Government.