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The Committee notes with regret that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

1. The Committee notes with interest the information provided by the Government with regard to vocational training and retraining courses provided both by individual enterprises and by the Technical Institute for Vocational Training. It requests the Government to include in its next report details about such vocational training and retraining courses, in particular about the percentages of men and women workers who have participated in such courses.

2. With regard to the revision of the conditions of employment in the public service, the Committee notes that the committee established to carry out a reform in the public service has completed its work, that the results thereof have been distributed to all government departments for comments, and that it was expected that by the end of 1988 the People's National Assembly would approve the Bill on this reform. The Committee hopes that the Government will include in its next report full information on the revised conditions of employment in the public service and that it will communicate a copy of the new Act when adopted.

3. The Committee notes that under section 155(4) of the General Labour Act, 1986, complementary legislation will lay down conditions and prohibitions for the employment of women in certain jobs. The Committee requests the Government to include in its next report copies of any such complementary legislation. It would also be grateful if the Government would supply information on the practical application of section 156(1) of the General Labour Act which provides that no restriction or preference on the ground of sex will apply to any offer of employment except in cases in which such distinction results essentially from the nature of the work, when the quality of such work done by men would be different from the quality of such work performed by women.

4. The Committee further requests the Government to supply information on any progress achieved in practice, since the entry into force of the General Labour Act, 1986, in promoting equality of opportunity and treatment in respect of employment and occupation, and in eliminating discrimination on any of the grounds mentioned in the Convention.