Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

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 requests the Government to supply in its next report information providing an overall view of the manner in which "the improvement of standards of living" has been regarded as "the principle objective in the planning of economic development" (Article 2 of the Convention).

2. Part IV. Remuneration of workers. Salary advances. In reply to the comments made by the Committee for several years, the Government indicates in a report received in August 2003 that regulation by section 150 of the Labour Code of the maximum amounts withheld from a worker’s wages to reimburse an advance made to him by the employer constitutes protection of the worker’s wages. According to the Government, the provisions of section 150 may be applied tacitly to the recovery of advances of wages relying on the same principle regarding the regulation of maximum amounts withheld. The Committee requests the Government to include in its next report examples of court decisions or administrative resolutions giving effect to the provisions of national legislation in conformity with Article 12 of the Convention.