Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Unemployment Provision Convention, 1934 (No. 44) - French Polynesia

For many years, the Committee has drawn the Government's attention to the need to adopt regulations determining the modality of implementing the principle of assistance to persons who are involuntarily unemployed, as set out in section 48 of Act No. 86-845 of 17 July 1986 and section 18 of Resolution No. 91-029/AT of 24 July 1991 pertaining to placement and employment. The Committee notes with regret that, according to the information supplied by the Government, the territorial assembly of French Polynesia has still not adopted the abovementioned regulations. In these circumstances, the Committee can do no more than remind the Government once again that in the absence of a text implementing the principle of assistance to workers who are involuntarily unemployed, application of the Convention is not ensured. It again expresses the hope that the Government will take all necessary measures to adopt in the near future regulations laying down the modality for assistance to persons who are involuntarily unemployed, including those partially unemployed, and that the regulations will make it possible to give effect to all the provisions of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to send a copy of the regulations as soon as they are adopted.

[The Government is asked to report in detail in 2001.]