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

Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95) - Côte d'Ivoire (Ratification: 1960)

With reference to its previous comments, the Committee recalls that it noted the comments made by the Trade Union International of Chemical, Oil and Allied Workers (communicated in a letter dated 9 March 1988) respecting the application of Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Convention. According to these comments, workers who are members of the Union of Offshore and Onshore Workers of Côte d'Ivoire (SYNTRAOFFCI), who were recruited by intermediary companies on behalf of oil companies, did not receive certain amounts owed as a final settlement of all wages due upon termination of their contracts in 1984. The Government indicated that, in response to the above comments, an ad hoc committee had been set up to examine the complaints of the workers in question, but that the workers had refused to divulge the method used to calculate the amount that they were claiming and to submit the documents needed to check their claims.

The Committee notes that the above ad hoc committee has not yet been able to commence work and that the workers concerned still refuse to submit the documents needed to check the claims that they are making, despite the intervention of their central trade union organisation.

The Committee hopes that the Government will inform the Committee of the measures taken to examine the claims of the workers concerned and it requests the Government to continue to supply information on the outcome of the measures that have been taken to resolve the demands of the workers concerned.