Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143) - Togo (Ratification: 1983)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. The Committee notes however the information provided by the Government to the Commission on the Applications of Standards of the International Labour Conference of June 2009 which indicates that it is difficult to collect data, including statistics, on migrant workers without the necessary mechanisms in place to coordinate and manage these data. The Government states, however, that the ongoing restructuring of the labour administration should permit the Government to collect and supply such data with its next report. The Committee takes note of these explanations and recalls that the extent, nature and direction of international labour migration has undergone substantial changes which may have had an impact on national law and policy concerning migrant workers applying the Convention. The Committee therefore asks the Government to provide full information in reply to all the questions contained in the report form concerning Part I (migration in abusive conditions) and Part II (equality of opportunity and treatment) of the Convention. Such information should indicate the specific legal provisions and policies applying the Convention, as well as statistical data on the number of men and women nationals from the Economic Community of West African States working in Togo, and on the number of Togolese nationals working abroad.

Part II of the Convention. Equality of opportunity and treatment. Particularly with respect to Article 8 of the Convention (loss of employment), the Committee recalls that this Article was one of the Articles most frequently mentioned by governments during the General Survey conducted in 1999 (paragraphs 577–597) as causing difficulties of application. The Committee therefore asks the Government to supply information on the application in practice of the principle of systematic non-withdrawal of the authorization of residence or work permit of a migrant worker residing legally in the territory – on loss of his or her employment – particularly in regard to migrant workers who are not considered to be “expatriates”.