Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - French Polynesia

Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention. Implementation of employment policy within the framework of a coordinated economic and social policy. The Committee notes the information in the Government’s report received in October 2009 and also the attached documents relating to employment. The Government indicates that in December 2008 a total of 7,520 jobseekers were registered with the Employment, Training and Vocational Integration Service (SEFI), an increase of more than 25.6 per cent in one year. Offers of jobs in all categories show a sharp reduction of 27 per cent compared with the previous year, whereas assisted company contracts show an increase of 13.6 per cent. Between December 2007 and December 2008, a loss of approximately 3,000 jobs was recorded, and the youth employment rate dropped while the rate for older workers improved. The Government indicates that, in order to rectify this situation, an employment protection plan has been established, with the aim of doubling available resources for employment and training policy. In addition, two territorial laws were adopted in May 2009: an Act on incentives to maintain employment (IME), which aims to enable French Polynesia to partially offset income losses of workers from further reductions of working hours beneath the legal minimum; another Act concerns the employment revival contract (CRE), designed to support enterprises recruiting an unemployed person on the basis of a fixed-term contract. New provisions concerning the vocational integration of persons with disabilities were also introduced with the territorial Act No. 2009-11 of 7 July 2009. The Government also states that the voluntary development contract (CVD), aimed at the integration of young persons, will enable an additional 200 qualified young persons each year to find a job in the private sector or in the administration. The Committee requests the Government to supply any available evaluation of the results achieved by the various employment policy measures which have been taken, particularly with regard to the impact of specific contracts aimed at the long-term vocational integration of young persons. It hopes that the report will also contain up-to-date information on employment trends and labour market measures.

Article 3. Participation of the social partners in the preparation and application of policies. The Government indicates that the social partners are consulted with regard to draft territorial Acts in the context of tripartite consultations. With regard to other legal texts, the social partners are usually associated on an informal basis in a technical working party in order to find appropriate solutions. The Committee requests the Government to provide examples of consultations held with the social partners on the subjects covered by the Convention, showing the opinions issued and the manner in which they have been taken into consideration.