Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - French Southern and Antarctic Territories

1. Articles 1 to 3 of the Convention. Protection of seafarers against discrimination on all the grounds set forth in the Convention. Despite longstanding requests for information on this point, the Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report again fails to provide information on the manner in which it ensures the protection of both national and foreign seafarers against discrimination in recruitment and conditions of employment on the grounds of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction and social origin. The Committee recalls that the Convention requires the Government to adopt educational and administrative measures to prevent discrimination on the grounds set forth in the Convention and to promote equality of opportunity and treatment in law and in practice. Noting that no complaints alleging discrimination have been submitted by seafarers serving in the TAAF against shipowners managing vessels registered on these territories, the Committee asks the Government to indicate what it is doing, in cooperation with the social partners, to inform national and foreign seafarers of their rights related to the Convention.

2. Application of the principle of equality of opportunity and treatment by collective agreements. The Committee reiterates its request to the Government to send copies of the collective agreements concluded for the sector so that it can examine whether the Convention is applied.

3. Part V of the report form. Statistics. Recalling the importance of statistical information in the evaluation of inequalities in the labour market and the development of strategies to address these inequalities, the Committee hopes that the Government’s next report will include statistical data, disaggregated by sex and origin of the crews on ships registered in the Territories.