Decision on the 20th item on the agenda: Report of the Director-General: Sixth Supplementary Report

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Report of the committee set up to examine the representation alleging non-observance by France of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98), the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) and the Termination of Employment Convention, 1982 (No. 158), made under article 24 of the ILO Constitution by the Confédération générale du travail – Force ouvrière

The Governing Body:

(a) approved the present report;

(b) invited the Government, in consultation with the social partners, to take such measures as may be necessary:

  • (i) to ensure that the exclusions from the protection provided by the laws and regulations implementing the Termination of Employment Convention, 1982 (No. 158), are in full conformity with its provisions;
  • (ii) to give effect to Article 4 of the Termination of Employment Convention, 1982 (No. 158), by ensuring, in accordance with that Convention, that “contracts for new employment” can in no case be terminated in the absence of a valid reason;

(c) entrusted the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations with following up the questions raised in this report with respect to the application of the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), and the Termination of Employment Convention, 1982 (No. 158);

(d) decided to make this report publicly available and close the procedure initiated by the representation of the Confédération générale du travail – Force ouvrière, alleging non-observance by France of Conventions Nos 111 and 158.

(GB.300/20/6, paragraph 89.)