Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

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

Application of the Convention in practice. The Committee notes the comments of the Free Confederation of Mauritanian Workers (CLTM) received on 28 August 2014, as well as the Government’s reply dated 10 October 2014. The CLTM reiterates 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 of the view that the absence of texts implementing the Labour Code 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. The Committee regrets the delay in the adoption of the implementing texts and its consequences and hopes that they will be adopted in the near future in order to improve maternity protection.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2016.]