Observación (CEACR) - Adopción: 2024, Publicación: 113ª reunión CIT (2025)

Convenio sobre la discriminación (empleo y ocupación), 1958 (núm. 111) - Suecia (Ratificación : 1962)

Article 1(1)(a) of the Convention. Prohibited grounds of discrimination. Legislation. Further to its previous comment, the Committee notes the Government’s indication in its report that: (1) at the moment, there are no plans to provide for protection against discrimination on grounds other than those that are currently listed in the Discrimination Act (2008:567), which do not include “political opinion” and “social origin”; and (2) according to Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights (which was incorporated into Swedish law in 1995), “the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status”. The Committee considers that Convention No. 111 and the European Convention on Human Rights are complementary and mutually reinforcing. However, this does not in itself dispense the Government from adopting protective legislation including at least all of the grounds of discrimination specified in Article 1(1)(a) of the Convention. Therefore, the Committee once again asks the Government to: (i) take the necessary steps to ensure that the legislation includes an explicit prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of “political opinion” and “social origin”; and (ii) provide information on any progress made to that end. In the meantime, the Committee once again asks the Government to provide information on the steps taken to ensure protection, in practice, against discrimination in employment and occupation on both grounds, as well as any relevant administrative or judicial decisions handed down in this respect.

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