Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2001, publiée 90ème session CIT (2002)

The Committee notes the Government’s brief report and the information supplied in reply to previous comments concerning the final settlement of all the wages due to the persons expelled from Mauritania following the events of April 1989, in accordance with Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Convention. In its report, the Government affirms that all the persons obliged to leave Mauritania in 1989 promptly recovered their wages due since 1996 on each occasion when they appeared before the technical service concerned or the competent legal authority. The Government adds that it gave instructions for speedy processing of all claims from persons obliged to leave the country in 1989. In addition, the Government states that there are no specific statistical records for these persons since their claims were handled in an anodyne and routine fashion.

In the absence of concrete information supporting this statement, the Committee is bound to draw the Government’s attention once again to the conclusions adopted by the ILO Governing Body in 1991 following examination of the representation made by the National Confederation of Workers of Senegal under article 24 of the ILO Constitution and to request it to supply detailed information on the wage payments already made, the amounts paid and the number of workers concerned. The Committee reminds the Government that technical assistance from the Office is always available to it and hopes that the Government will do its utmost to speed up final settlement of the problem on which the Committee has been making comments for many years.

[The Government is asked to report in detail in 2002.]