Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) - Togo (Ratification: 1984)

1. In its report, the Government indicates that it has taken note of the Committee's comments and will take steps as soon as possible to bring the legislation into conformity with the Convention on the following points which the Committee raised previously:

Article 2, paragraph 1, of the Convention. The minimum age for admission to employment or work applies to all types of employment, including self-employment. The Committee notes that the provisions of section 114, in conjunction with section 2 of the Labour Code, prohibiting work by children under the age of 14, apply only to work performed for, and under the direction of, an employer. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures taken or envisaged to ensure that no person under the specified minimum age shall be admitted to employment or work in any occupation.

Article 3, paragraphs 1 and 3. According to information supplied by the Government previously, the employment of young people above the age of 16 in activities which by their nature or the circumstances in which they are carried out are likely to jeopardise the health, safety or morals of young persons, is subject to special authorisation from the labour inspector who will supervise their protection. The Committee recalls that the employment of young persons aged 16 and over in such activities may be authorised by national laws or regulations or the competent authority, after consultation with employers' and workers' organisations on condition that the health, safety and morals of the young persons concerned are fully protected and that the young persons have received adequate specific vocational training in the relevant branch of activity. It asks the Government to indicate the measures taken to bring the legislation into conformity with the Convention on this point, by ensuring that consultations are held with the organisations concerned and that the conditions recalled above are implemented.

2. Article 2, paragraph 5. The Committee draws the Government's attention to the information which it must provide under Article 2, paragraph 5(a) or (b) of the Convention and requests it to include this information in future reports.