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

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Guatemala (Ratification: 1960)

1. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes with interest the Government's statement that the draft texts of the new Substantive Labour Code and the new Procedural Labour Code, which took into account the observations of the Committee, have been submitted to Congress. The Committee hopes that the new texts will include provisions specifically intended to guarantee the equality of opportunity and treatment established by the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to supply a copy of the above Codes when they have been adopted.

2. The Committee refers to the information supplied in the Government's previous report concerning the measures that were envisaged to repeal discriminatory legislative provisions, and in particular section 114 of the Civil Code, which regulates the way in which the husband may oppose his wife's going out to work, provided that he earns enough to maintain the household. The Committee hopes that the Government will be able to indicate the progress achieved in this connection.

3. With regard to the measures to guarantee to Guatemalans of different ethnic origins the benefit of equality of access to training, the Committee recalls the information supplied by the Government according to which the special commission of the Congress of the Republic is examining the formulation of the Bill to regulate all matters concerning indigenous communities. The Committee once again requests the Government to continue supplying information on this matter and to provide a copy of the Act once it has been adopted.