Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Ratification: 1971)

1. The Committee notes the Government’s report and the communication from the National Single Federation of Public Employees (FEDE-UNEP), received at ILO headquarters on 2 November 2004 and sent to the Government on 23 November 2004. The Committee will further consider the communication together with the Government’s next report and any observation the Government may wish to make in reply.

2. Article 1. National extraction as a ground for discrimination. Referring to paragraph 3 of its previous observation, the Committee reiterates its hope that national extraction will be added to the grounds of discrimination prohibited by the Organic Labour Act and the draft Bill on the subsystem for employment and labour development, so that the prohibition covers all the grounds laid down in the Convention.

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.