Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143) - Benin (Ratification: 1980)

Article 14(a) of the Convention. Restrictions concerning employment and geographical mobility within the country. In response to its previous comment, the Committee notes that the Government once again states, in its report, that although Decree No. 77-45 of 4 March 1977 regulating the movement of foreign nationals (which subjects foreign workers to special authorization to leave their town of residence in Benin) has not been formally repealed, it is no longer applied, and the Constitution guarantees freedom of movement on an equal footing with nationals without restriction. It also notes the Government’s assurance that it will take the necessary steps to formally repeal this text. The Committee once again urges the Government to formally repeal, as soon as possible, the restriction on the geographical mobility of migrant workers provided under Decree No. 77-45 of 4 March 1977.

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.

[The Government is asked to reply in full to the present comments in 2026.]