Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Nursing Personnel Convention, 1977 (No. 149) - France (Ratification: 1984)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report does not provide any information in reply to the questions raised in its previous direct request, which are therefore taken up again in its comments.

Article 2, paragraphs 1 and 2, of the Convention.  Further to its previous comments, the Committee once again requests the Government to provide statistical data on the number of persons entering the profession annually, the number of nursing personnel by category and by grade, the proportion of nursing personnel in relation to other workers in the health sector, and their geographic distribution in the regions and departments, including overseas departments (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Reunion).

Article 7.  In its previous comments, the Committee noted circular DSS/AT No. 93-32 of 23 March 1993, specifying the methods of implementing the regulations set out in Decree No. 93-74 of 18 January 1993 and the Order of 18 January 1993, which establishes a new procedure for the coverage under employment injury legislation of workers who have contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The Committee once again requests the Government to indicate the extent to which the above circular and regulations apply in the overseas departments.

Furthermore, referring to its general observation of 1990, which it repeated in 1994, the Committee once again requests the Government to indicate the measures taken or under consideration, in consultation with the employers’ and workers’ organizations concerned, to take account of the particular risk among nursing personnel of accidental exposure to HIV: for example, working conditions, confidentiality of test results, acknowledgement that the cause of the infection was occupational, etc. The Committee once again requests the Government to indicate the conditions under which these measures are extended to the overseas departments.

Part V of the report form.  The Committee once again hopes that the Government will be able to provide information on persons leaving the profession.