Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

Underground Work (Women) Convention, 1935 (No. 45) - Guinea-Bissau (Ratification: 1977)

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 following matters raised in its previous direct request:

The Committee noted that Act No. 2/86, 5 April 1986, to issue the Labour Code repeals the former legislation which prohibited women from being employed in underground work, but that it provides, in section 155, that supplementary legislation will establish the circumstances or prohibition of the employment of women in this work and in other work liable to harm the genetic function of women.

While noting from the Government's report that there is no underground work in Guinea-Bissau, the Committee hopes that the necessary steps will be taken in the near future to adopt appropriate texts to bring the legislation into line with the Convention. It asks the Government to report on any progress achieved in this connection.