Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Gabon (Ratification: 1961)

1. The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in reply to its previous comments. The Committee notes the provisions of section 7 of Act No. 2/81 of 8 June 1981 to issue the general conditions of service of public servants, by virtue of which no distinction is made between the two sexes for the application of the above conditions of service. The Committee requests the Government to supply information on any development or progress concerning the participation of women in the various types of activity, and particularly in the public service.

2. With regard to the private sector, the Committee once again requests the Government to supply statistics of persons employed in this sector (denoted by sex, national extraction, age, etc.). The Committee hopes that these data (which could be compiled in accordance with the suggestions made by the Gabonese Employers' Confederation in the comments it addressed to the Ministry of Labour in August 1988 and which were transmitted to the ILO by the Government) will be communicated with the next report, and that the report will also indicate any positive measures taken to implement the national policy to ensure equality of opportunity and treatment in employment, and to eliminate all discrimination on grounds of race, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin, in accordance with the principle laid down by the Convention.