Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

The Committee takes note of the Government’s response in its 2004 report to the repeated comments concerning the settlement of all wages due to persons expelled from Mauritania following the events of April 1989. In its report, the Government stated that all those persons who had been forced to leave the country, who had had contracts of employment and who had returned following the normalization of the situation, had been reintegrated. The Government also stated that there were currently no requests or claims before the competent bodies and that important sums of money had been granted concerning this issue. Whilst noting the reassuring indications given by the Government stating that, since 1996, instructions have been given regarding the rapid and diligent processing of all requests from the workers concerned, the Committee is surprised that, 15 years after the events in question took place, the Government is still not in a position to supply the slightest concrete element or documented information corroborating its statements. It requests the Government to provide in this regard all necessary information. The Committee trusts that the Government will spare no effort in ensuring that, in the future, situations calling into question the principles of regular payment of wages and prompt settlement of wages upon the termination of employment will be examined with all the necessary rigour and efficiency to ensure the application of the Convention.

The Committee hopes that the Government will take the necessary measures to ensure that the abovementioned principles are respected.