Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 83rd ILC session (1996)

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention, 1946 (No. 78) - Comoros (Ratification: 1978)

Article 1, paragraph 1, and Article 7 of the Convention. In the comments it has been making for a number of years, the Committee has drawn the Government's attention to the fact that the Convention applies, inter alia, to children and young persons working on their own account or on account of their parents in itinerant trading or in any other occupation carried on in the streets or in places to which the public have access and on the need to take appropriate measures to give effect to the provisions of the Convention in regard to this category of young workers. The Committee also drew the Government's attention to the fact that Article 7, paragraph 2(a), of the Convention provides for measures of identification to be determined by national law, in order to ensure the application of the system of medical examination to this category of young workers.

The Committee notes that the Government, in its last report, expresses the will to harmonize the provisions of current national legislation with the Convention. It hopes that such harmonization will take place shortly and requests the Government to indicate any progress made in this respect.

Article 6. The Committee invites the Government to refer to its comments relating to Convention No. 77, as follows:

Article 6 of the Convention. Further to its previous comments on the adoption of a text issued under the Labour Code to give effect to this provision, the Committee notes that in its last report the Government indicates that it will send a copy of the draft text on the physical and vocational rehabilitation of children and young persons found by medical examination to be unsuited to certain types of work or to have physical handicaps or limitations. The Committee again hopes that this text will be adopted in the very near future and that it will prescribe the appropriate measures required by this Article of the Convention. It requests the Government to supply a copy of the text as soon as it is adopted.