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

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - French Polynesia

1. The Committee notes the Government's report, in particular the information on the method used by the Agency for Employment and Vocational Training (AEFP) for registering job offers from employers. The Committee notes, moreover, that according to the statistics supplied by the Government for 1991, 1995 and 1996, a minority of job offers related to candidates of either sex and the great majority of job offers applied only to candidates of a specified sex. To take the most recent example, in 1996 only 40 per cent of job offers concerned candidates of either sex. Consequently, around 60 per cent of job offers were for candidates of a specified sex. Under Order No. 412 CM of 14 May 1993, which lays down the list of jobs and occupations for which it is an inherent requirement to belong to one sex or the other, only three categories of job are concerned, namely: (a) actors called on to interpret either a female role or a male role; (b) mannequins required to present clothes and accessories; and (c) male and female models.

2. The Committee would therefore be grateful if the Government would indicate whether these three job categories do in fact constitute the majority of job offers in French Polynesia. It reiterates its previous request for the Government to supply copies of certain of the job offers made for only male candidates or female candidates. Finally, noting that the description of the method used by the AEFP to register job offers indicates that "posts that are difficult to fill, particularly highly qualified jobs" are published in the written press or on television, the Committee requests the Government to supply information on the nature of these highly qualified jobs.