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

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

Revision of Convention No. 96 and prospects for the ratification of Convention No. 181. In reply to the observation of 2009, the Government confirms in a report received in March 2010 that the procedure for the adoption of the decree defining the obligations of employment agencies and the protection of workers employed by temporary work agencies is still in progress. The Government indicates that the draft decree has been adopted by the National Advisory Council for Labour and Social Security. Furthermore, the Government confirms that the issue of the ratification of the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), is receiving close consideration. In its 2010 General Survey concerning employment instruments, the Committee noted an observation from the National Union of Autonomous Trade Unions of Senegal, indicating that the competent authority did not apply satisfactory controls to private employment agencies and that illicit practices had proliferated as a result (paragraph 739 of the General Survey). The Committee again requests the Government to send a copy of the decree adopted pursuant to section L226 of the Labour Code. It also requests the Government to supply information on the developments which have taken place, in consultation with the social partners, with a view to ratifying Convention No. 181.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2012.]