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

Minimum Age (Industry) Convention (Revised), 1937 (No. 59) - Yemen (Ratification: 1969)

Article 2 of the Convention. With reference to its earlier comments on employment forms, the Committee notes the information supplied by the Government to the effect that the amended version of the forms has not been adopted. The Committee hopes that the new version of the forms will be adopted shortly and that the Government will provide a copy of it.

Article 5. The Committee notes that section 11, subsection 13, of Ministerial Order No. 17 of 1988 respecting health and safety at work prohibits young people under 18 years of age from being employed in work which is arduous and harmful to health and social development. Despite the progress in this respect, the Committee observes that Ministerial Order No. 17 of 1988 does not appear to cover employment which is dangerous to the morals of young people. The Committee recalls that under Article 5 of the Convention an age higher than the minimum age must be prescribed for admission to employments which, by their nature or the circumstances in which they are carried on, are also dangerous to the morals of the persons employed therein. The Committee asks the Government to indicate the measures taken to bring the legislation into conformity with the Convention on this point.