Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Côte d'Ivoire (Ratification: 1961)

Equality of opportunity and treatment. Legislation. For many years the Committee has been asking the Government to take the necessary steps to bring into conformity with the Convention section 14(2) of Act No. 92-570 of 11 September 1992 issuing the general public service regulations, which provide that “specific arrangements may be made, on account of physical fitness requirements or constraints inherent in certain functions ... to reserve access [to the public service] for candidates of one or other sex”. The Committee also recalls that section 14(1) of the Act only prohibits any distinction being made between men and women during recruitment. In its previous comments, the Committee noted the Government’s undertaking to repeal section 14(2) during the review of the general public service regulations. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that a general reform of the public service is under way and that a review of the general regulations is planned in this framework. The Committee also notes the information published on the website of the Ministry of the Public Service and Administrative Reform according to which a workshop was held in October 2012 specifically to review the Act issuing the general public service regulations with a view to identifying “the shortcomings, discrepancies and injustices contained in the current regulations” and “to propose corrective measures”. The Committee urges the Government to take the necessary steps to repeal section 14(2) of Act No. 92-570 of 11 September 1992 issuing the general public service regulations and trusts that it will take the opportunity provided by the review of the regulations to consider the possibility of including provisions defining and prohibiting any direct or indirect discrimination made on the basis of at least race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin, at all stages of employment. The Committee asks the Government to ensure that equality of opportunity and treatment without any distinction on the basis of the aforementioned reasons is one of the specific objectives of the public service reform. The Government is requested to provide information on the progress of the work on the review of the general public service regulations and to forward a copy of the new regulations as soon as they have been adopted.

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.