Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2018, published 108th ILC session (2019)

Social Policy (Non-Metropolitan Territories) Convention, 1947 (No. 82) - French Polynesia

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that the next report will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comments initially made in 2014.

Repetition

Article 2 of the Convention. Social policy. The Committee notes that the Government refers in its report to the fluctuations in GDP over the period 2002–07, in the price index for the period 2004–06 and in overall average wages between 2002 and 2012. The Government adds that, during the period between July 2003 and June 2008, the interoccupational guaranteed minimum wage (SMIG) was raised by 32.1 per cent. The Government also reports the adoption of a number of social measures relating principally to labour law. These measures are of a legislative nature, with the texts adopted in the fields covered by the Convention mainly consisting of provisions on vocational training, apprenticeship and non-discrimination. The Committee requests the Government to continue to report on the policies designed to apply a social policy primarily directed to the economic development of French Polynesia.

Articles 18(2) and 23. Abolition of discrimination. Wage rates. The Government reiterates the explanations provided in August 2008 concerning the modifications notified at the time of the ratification of the Convention by the French Republic (ILO, Official Bulletin, 31 December 1954, Vol. XXXVII, No. 7, pp. 371–2). With regard to the modification of Article 18(2), concerning the diminution of differences in wage rates due to discrimination, while noting the Government’s statement concerning its wish to maintain the respective modifications, the Committee considered previously that the content of this provision of Convention No. 82 already appeared to be covered by the matters raised in its direct requests relating to the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100). The Committee invites the Government to keep the Office informed of any decision concerning the application of the provisions of the Convention and, in particular, to specify whether changes in local conditions have in practice made it possible to renounce the modifications relating to Article 3(3) and to Articles 4, 8(b) and 18(2) of the Convention.