Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1997, published 86th ILC session (1998)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Honduras (Ratification: 1960)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

1. The Committee notes the Government's brief report. The report recalls that the revision of the Labour Code is drawing to an end in discussions within the Tripartite Committee for the Revision, and that the draft will then be sent to Parliament. The Committee requests the Government to keep it informed of any developments in the adoption of the revised text, which should take into account the requirements of Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention concerning the national policy to promote equality of opportunity and treatment in employment and occupation.

2. The Committee notes that the report is silent on the matters raised in its previous comments and therefore repeats the questions that it raised in the hope that the Government will soon be in a position to supply these details showing the application of the Convention in practice.

(a) Having noted in previous comments that the proportion of women who are candidates for qualifications and who obtain qualifications is very much lower than that of men and that the Government intends to give priority attention to the promotion of education and vocational training for women with a view to increasing their opportunities on the labour market (the "National Action Plan for Human Development in Honduras, 1992-2000" includes this objective), the Committee requests the Government to transmit statistics in this regard. If possible, they should compare the development of the proportion of women in relation to men in the various vocational training institutions, and the concrete results achieved in increasing the opportunities of women through the application of the National Plan. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would also supply information on vocational guidance programmes and on any measures which have been taken to broaden the choice of occupations available to girls, with a view to increasing their opportunities on the labour market.

(b) The Committee had previously noted that 52.7 per cent of public sector jobs are held by women and 47.3 per cent by men, and that the level of responsibility of women is increasing. The Committee would be grateful to receive more detailed information in this respect, for example, in the form of tables showing professional qualifications by sex and job category in the public sector, including the public service.