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Medical Examination of Young Persons (Industry) Convention, 1946 (No. 77) - Algeria (RATIFICATION: 1962)

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:

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Article 6. Physical and vocational rehabilitation of children and young persons found to be unsuited to work. The Committee noted that section 93 of Act No. 85-05 of 16 February 1985 on health protection and promotion provides regulations for appropriate measures for rehabilitation and integration in society of persons suffering from handicaps, and requested the Government to supply a copy of the regulations adopted in application of this legislative provision. The Committee noted the information supplied by the Government to the effect that sections 13 and 14 of the Executive Decree on the organization of industrial medicine provides appropriate measures for adaptation of workstations or transfer of post on the basis of the results of medical examinations. In this regard, the Committee noted more particularly that, pursuant to section 13, clinical and paraclinical examinations are intended in particular to suggest possible adaptations of the workstation and to find posts to which the worker, from the medical viewpoint, can be appointed and which would be most appropriate for him; and that, under section 14, any transfer of post is subject to a further medical examination intended to ensure the fitness of the worker for the post envisaged.

The Committee recalled that under Article 6(1) of the Convention the competent authority shall take appropriate measures not only for the vocational guidance of children and young persons found by medical examination to be unsuited to certain types of work but also for their physical and vocational rehabilitation. For this purpose, pursuant to Article 6(2), cooperation shall be established between the labour, health, educational and social services, and effective liaison maintained between them. In this regard, the Committee referred to Paragraphs 9 and 10 of Recommendation No. 79 which contains supplementary indications on the measures to be taken by the national authority for enforcing the provisions of this Article of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to indicate if measures have been taken or are envisaged for the physical and vocational rehabilitation of children and young people found by medical examination to be unsuited for certain types of work. It also requests the Government to supply information on the measures taken or envisaged to establish cooperation between the labour, health, educational and social services and to maintain effective liaison between them.