Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Maternity Protection Convention, 1919 (No. 3) - Mauritania (Ratification: 1963)

Application of the Convention in practice. The Committee notes the observations of the General Confederation of Workers of Mauritania (CGTM), received on 1 September 2016, which report non-compliance with the Labour Code by the majority of private enterprises due to the lack of supervision by State services. With reference to the observations made by the Free Confederation of Mauritanian Workers (CLTM) in 2014 with regard to the lack of implementing texts for the Labour Code of 2004, the Committee notes that some provisions of the Labour Code explicitly require the adoption of specific implementing texts. This is the case, in particular, with the obligation to provide a nursing room in certain enterprises (section 162(2)). As the CGTM reports a lack of facilities for nursing due to the absence of rooms for this purpose in enterprises, the Committee requests the Government to adopt regulatory measures to give effect in practice to the right to nurse a child which is recognized both in national law and by the Convention. The Committee further requests the Government to provide information on the services that are competent to supervise compliance with the national legislation on maternity protection, to indicate how this supervision is organized in law and practice, and to provide statistical data on the inspections carried out and the penalties imposed.