Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 83rd ILC session (1996)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Czechia (Ratification: 1993)

The Committee notes that the Government has submitted its first report following the entry into force of the Convention, which arrived too late to be examined at the present session.

The Committee notes also the approval by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office at its 264th (November 1995) Session of the Report of the Committee set up to examine the representation made by the Trade Union Association of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia (OS-CMS) under article 24 of the ILO Constitution alleging non-observance by the Czech Republic of this Convention. The Governing Body Committee found that there were incompatibilities between the national legislation and the Convention, in particular with relation to the Screening Act, No. 451/1991, declared applicable in the Czech Republic following the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federated Republic.

The Governing Body invited the Government:

(i) to repeal or modify any legal provisions which are incompatible with the Convention;

(ii) to take the necessary measures, including appropriate appeal procedures, to enable workers who suffered discriminatory treatment within the meaning of Convention No. 111 to obtain redress, including reinsertion in their jobs in appropriate cases, whatever their sector of activity;

(iii) to try to obtain the cooperation of employers' and workers' organizations and other appropriate bodies, in accordance with Article 3(a) of the Convention, for the adoption and implementation of the measures recommended above and, more generally, to encourage the acceptance and application of a national policy to eliminate all discrimination within the meaning of the Convention;

(iv) to have appropriate consultation with and recourse, if necessary, to the cooperation of the Office, in carrying out the above recommendations; amd

(v) to provide complete information in the reports due under article 22 of the Constitution of the ILO on the measures taken to give effect to these recommendations, in order to enable the present Committee to follow up the situation.

The Committee notes in this respect that the Government provided certain clarifications to the Governing Body when it adopted the report of its Committee. The Committee looks forward to examining, at its next session, any additional information the Government may wish to provide on the questions covered by the representation, as well as on the application of the Convention more generally.

[The Government is asked to report in detail in 1996.]