Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

Fee-Charging Employment Agencies Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 96) - Senegal (Ratification: 1962)

1. Part III of the Convention. Regulation of fee-charging employment agencies. The Committee notes the brief information provided by the Government in a report received in August 2004. It notes that under section L.224 of the Labour Code (Act No. 97 of 1 December 1997), operations relating to the labour force are free of charge. It is prohibited to offer or to give to any person within the service recompense in any form whatsoever, or for the latter to accept such recompense. The Labour Code also provides that decrees shall be issued to ensure the specific protection of workers employed by temporary work agencies (section L.226). The Committee therefore requests the Government to indicate the measures adopted under section L.226 of the Labour Code for the control of the operations of fee-charging employment agencies including, in particular, those conducted with a view to profit (Articles 10 to 14 of the Convention).

2. Part V of the report form. Please give a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied including, for instance, extracts from official reports, information regarding the number and nature of the contraventions reported and any other particulars bearing on the practical application of the Convention. In this respect, the Committee recalls that the ILO Governing Body invites the States parties to Convention No. 96 to contemplate ratifying, as appropriate, the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), which will ipso jure involve the immediate denunciation of Convention No. 96 (document GB.273/LILS/4(Rev.1), 273rd Session, Geneva, November 1998.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2006.]