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

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention, 1946 (No. 78) - Algeria (Ratification: 1962)

The Committee requests the Government to refer the comments made under Convention No. 77, as follows:

1. Article 4, paragraph 2, of the Convention. The Committee notes that, under section 3 of Executive Decree No. 93-120 of 15 May 1993, an inter-ministerial order will specify the occupations which involve high health risks. The ministers responsible for labour and health respectively must lay down in this regulation the occupations which involve high health risks. The Committee requests the Government to supply a copy of this text as soon as it is adopted.

2. Article 6. The Committee notes that section 93 of Act No. 85-05 of 16 February 1985 on health protection and promotion provides appropriate measures for rehabilitation and integration in society of persons suffering from handicaps. It requests the Government to send a copy of the regulations adopted under this legislation.

Article 7, paragraph 2(a), of the Convention. Further to its previous comments, the Committee recalls again that the Convention prescribes the adoption of measures of identification for ensuring the application of the system of medical examination for fitness for employment to children and young persons engaged either 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 (for example, the person concerned must have a medical examination document).

The Committee notes that the Government's last report contains no information on measures taken or envisaged to give effect to this provision of the Convention. It hopes that such measures will be adopted in the very near future and requests the Government to indicate any progress on this matter.