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

Maternity Protection Convention, 1919 (No. 3) - Mauritania (Ratification: 1963)

Part V of the report form. Application of the Convention in practice. The Committee notes that in comments received on 29 August 2013, the Free Confederation of Mauritanian Workers (CLTM) indicates that no texts to implement the new Labour Code (Act No. 2004-017 of 2004) have as yet been issued, which is causing numerous difficulties. The CLTM is accordingly of the view that the new legislation is at the root of the decline in maternity protection: few employers comply with the law in the absence of any monitoring or punishment of offences, and the number of pregnant or nursing women exposed to more hazards and serious risks is on the increase. According to the CLTM, the Government has no reliable and credible statistics on breaches of the maternity protection provisions. The Committee trusts that the Government will not fail to reply to the CLTM’s comments and that it will send its report on the application of the Convention for examination by the Committee at its next session.