Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Placing of Seamen Convention, 1920 (No. 9) - Cameroon (Ratification: 1970)

The Committee refers to its observation. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Article 5 of the Convention. The Committee notes the Government's intention to introduce new measures in order to give effect to this Article of the Convention. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate the measures taken in this respect in its next report (the constitution of committees consisting of an equal number of representatives of shipowners and seamen to advise on matters concerning the carrying on of placement offices).

Article 10. The Committee hopes that the Government will supply in its next reports the statistics and other information that is required to be transmitted by this Article. In particular, please supply the available data concerning the activities in respect of seamen of the employment agencies in Kribi, Limbé and Dovala.