Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - New Caledonia

Article 1(1)(a) of the Convention. Prohibited grounds of discrimination. Legislation. The Committee refers to its previous comments concerning section Lp. 112-1 of the Labour Code of New Caledonia and recalls once again that, when national legislation gives effect to the Convention, it has to cover as a minimum all of the prohibited grounds of discrimination set out in Article 1(1)(a). The Committee therefore once again requests the Government to take the necessary measures to explicitly prohibit any discrimination in employment and occupation on the basis of colour, national extraction or social origin, in accordance with Article 1(1)(a) of the Convention, and to provide information on any measures adopted in this respect. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the manner in which workers are protected in practice against discrimination on the basis of colour, national extraction and social origin, and the remedies that are available to them in this regard.

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