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Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143) - Guinea (RATIFICATION: 1978)

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:

With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes, from the Government's report, that a series of regulations intended to give effect to the Convention is being prepared. The Committee therefore hopes that the Government will soon be in a position to indicate the progress achieved on the following points, which have been raised in its previous comments:

- the adoption of legislative measures and sanctions against the organisers of illicit or clandestine movements of migrants for employment (Articles 3 and 6, paragraphs 1 and 2, of the Convention);

- the adoption of legislative measures to give effect to the various Articles of the Convention as regards foreign workers in Guinea (Articles 8, 9, 13, 14(b) and (c)). The Committee once again requests the Government to indicate the regulations on the employment of foreigners used by the National Employment and Manpower Office, which it is responsible for supervising (Article 2, paragraph 1);

- the amendment of section 251 of the Labour Code, which reserves the right to be members of the boards of trade unions to resident citizens of Guinea, and which is incompatible with the equality of treatment set out in Article 10 and Article 12(d) which guarantee migrant workers who are lawfully within its territory the same trade union rights as nationals.

The Committee once again requests the Government to supply information on the consultations with employers' and workers' organisations to determine whether there are illegally employed migrant workers and whether there are movements of migrants for employment, either to or from Guinea, under abusive conditions (Article 2, paragraph 2) and on any contacts and exchanges of information with other States in order to prevent clandestine and abusive migration and to prosecute the authors of manpower trafficking, in accordance with Articles 4 and 5.

The Committee requests the Government to supply information on the number and location of Guineans working abroad and the number of foreigners working in Guinea.