Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2007, publiée 97ème session CIT (2008)

1. Article 2 of the Convention. Measures to detect irregular migration. 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 concerning this matter that they have in their possession. 

2. 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 concrete measures taken or envisaged in cooperation with the employers’ and workers’ organizations to implement the national policy in accordance with Article 12, paragraphs (a) to (g), of the Convention.

3. Part V of the report form. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue providing information on legislative instruments or other measures relating to the application of the Convention, including statistics disaggregated by sex, place 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.