Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

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

Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Convention. The Committee notes that the Government will take into account the Committee's comments concerning the requirements of this Article as regards limiting the maximum amount of advances which may be made to a worker by an employer, during the revision of the Labour Code. The Committee hopes that the Government will take the necessary measures in this respect in the near future.

Article 15, paragraph 2. The Committee notes that a new reform of the national education system has been made, including the establishment of first-level schools (nine years' education in the primary cycle instead of six years), and that a new Framework Act to amend Act No. 58-118 of 4 November 1958 respecting education is being prepared. The Committee recalls that the Government indicated in one of its previous reports that the country did not yet possess the means to implement the principle of prescribing a school-leaving age and that the number of children having to repeat classes or abandon the education system was fairly high. The Committee once again hopes that the Government will continue to take the necessary measures to retain children in educational structures until they are integrated into active life and requests the Government to continue supplying information on the measures that are adopted in this respect.