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The Committee notes with regret that for the second consecutive year the Government's report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

Part IV (Unemployment benefit), Article 24 of the Convention (in conjunction with Article 69(i)). In its earlier comments, the Committee noted that section 61, paragraph 3, of Act No. 114 of 24 March 1970 respecting placement and unemployment insurance (which provides that benefits shall be suspended for all members of an unemployment insurance fund or section thereof if 65 per cent or more of the members are considered to be involved in a labour dispute) no longer applied, by virtue of the amendment made by Act No. 229 of 6 June 1979, except in cases where the labour dispute is not incompatible with a collective agreement The Committee consequently requested the Government to confirm whether the suspension of unemployment benefits was henceforth limited to workers involved in the dispute or whose conditions of employment might be influenced by its outcome. In its report, the Government indicates that this is indeed the case. The Committee takes note of this statement with interest; it hopes that the Government will therefore have no difficulties in supplementing, in a future revision of the legislation, section 61, paragraph 3, of Act No. 114 of 24 March 1970, respecting placement and unemployment insurance as amended, so as to expressly provide that the suspension of unemployment benefit envisaged in this provision only applies where the person concerned has lost his employment as a direct result of a stoppage of work due to a trade dispute, as provided for in this provision of the Convention.

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The Committee hopes that the Government will be able to keep the Office informed of any progress made.