Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Night Work (Women) Convention (Revised), 1948 (No. 89) - Angola (Ratification: 1976)

Article 5 of the Convention.  The Committee notes the adoption of the new General Labour Act No. 2/2000. It notes that under article 271(2)(c) of the new General Labour Act, the employment of women during the night may be authorized by the General Labour Inspectorate when work is organized on rotating shifts and women workers have given their consent to being included in such shifts. The Committee points out, in this respect, that this provision does not appear to be consistent with the Convention as the only exceptions permitted by the Convention to the general ban on women’s night work are those provided for in Articles 3, 4, 5 and 8 of the Convention. The Committee asks the Government to supply fuller information on the practical application of this provision and to indicate the measures it intends to adopt to ensure that any exceptions to the night work prohibition remain within the limits set out in the abovementioned Articles of the Convention.

The Committee takes this opportunity to invite the Government to give favourable consideration to the ratification of either the Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171) or the Protocol of 1990 to Convention No. 89.