Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Social Policy (Basic Aims and Standards) Convention, 1962 (No. 117) - Tunisia (Ratification: 1970)

1. Parts I and II of the Convention. Improvement of standards of living. The Committee notes the indications provided by the Government in October 2008 in reply to its 2005 direct request. The Government indicates that the improvement of standards of living is included among the essential objectives of the XIth Development Plan (2007–11), the aims of which include raising the average income per inhabitant to around 5,733 dinars, reducing the poverty and illiteracy rates and developing social coverage so that it attains 97 per cent of the population. The Government also supplies a number of indicators of trends in the rate of households owning their housing, the increase in the electricity and drinking water supply rates, as indicators of improvements in the standards of living of the population. The Committee invites the Government to provide information in its next report on the results achieved and the difficulties encountered in attaining the objectives in relation to the improvement of standards of living established in the XIth Plan, including information on the measures taken with a view to improving living conditions in rural areas and promoting productive capacity and improving the standards of living of agricultural producers (Articles 3 and 4).

2. Part IV. Remuneration of workers. Advances on wages. The Government indicates that no court rulings or administrative decisions have been rendered to give effect to section 150 of the Labour Code determining the maximum amounts deductible from wages. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee once again requests the Government to indicate any progress achieved in this field and to include with its next report relevant examples of measures giving effect to the provisions of Article 12.