Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Human Resources Development Convention, 1975 (No. 142) - France (Ratification: 1984)

The Committee notes the indications in the Government’s report, received in September 2013, concerning the regional planning contract for the development of vocational training, the implementation of the inter-occupational national agreement and Act No. 2009-1437 of November 2009 concerning the provision of reception, information and guidance relating to occupations and training. The Committee also notes that various reception and guidance mechanisms established by the “Pôle Emploi” (French employment agency) and its partners. The Government indicates that, in the context of modernization of the vocational training system, facilitating the public provision of training is an operational must. The Committee recalls that Convention No. 142, as complemented by the Human Resources Development Recommendation, 2004 (No. 195), is part of the context of the attainment of full employment and decent work and of the realization of the right to education for all (see General Survey concerning employment instruments, 2010, page 47). The Committee invites the Government to include in its next report extracts from reports, studies, inquiries or statistical data allowing an examination of the results achieved by the policies, programmes and measures adopted to give effect to the Convention (Part V of the report form).