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Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97) - Zambia (RATIFICATION: 1964)

The Committee notes 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. In its 1999 General Survey on migrant workers, the Committee noted that international labour migration had undergone deep-rooted changes since the adoption of the Convention in terms of its scope, its directions and its nature (see paragraphs 5–17 of the General Survey). The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate the manner in which current trends in migratory flows have had an impact on the content and implementation of its national policy and legislation respecting emigration and immigration and if it would provide a copy of any new laws or regulations which have been adopted, as well as up to date information in reply to the questions set out in the report form of the Convention.

2. The Committee draws the Government’s attention to Article 6 of the Convention in particular and requests it to provide information on the implementation of its policy of equality of treatment between national workers and migrant workers with regard to the matters set out in points (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Article. Recalling that under the terms of paragraph 1 of this Article, each State which has ratified the Convention undertakes to apply, without discrimination in respect of nationality, race, religion or sex, treatment no less favourable than that which it applies to its own nationals in respect of the matters set out in points (a) to (d) of the Article, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate the measures which have been taken or are envisaged to ensure that migrant women workers are treated on an equal footing with their male colleagues, whether or not they are foreign nationals, with regard to conditions of work and life, social security, employment taxes and access to justice, in view of the increasing feminization of the migrant workforce (see paragraphs 22–23 and 658 of the above General Survey).

3. Article 8. As this provision was one of those referred to most frequently by governments on the occasion of the General Survey as raising difficulties with regard to its application (see paragraphs 600–608 of the above General Survey), the Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide information on the application in practice of the maintenance of the right to residence in the event of the incapacity for work of migrant workers admitted on a permanent basis.