Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) - Madagascar (Ratification: 1966)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government's report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

For many years, the Committee has been drawing the Government's attention to the fact that there are no specific laws or regulations to give full effect to Articles 14 and 18 of the Convention, which provide that seats shall be supplied to all workers without distinction on grounds of sex, and that noise and vibrations likely to have harmful effects on workers shall be reduced as far as possible. Since 1975, the Government has stated in its reports that the Order envisaged by the Labour Code of 1975 would give full effect to the above provisions of the Convention. The Committee notes the adoption on 25 August 1995 of a new Labour Code (Act No. 94-029), under section 208 of which the provisions respecting occupational health and safety of the 1975 Labour Code remain in force. The Committee also notes the information provided by the Government in its report to the effect that the National Assembly has adopted a Code respecting health, safety and the working environment and that the texts issued under the Code, which are currently being prepared, will take the provisions of the Convention into consideration. The Committee trusts that the Government will report the measures adopted in this respect in the near future and that it will provide copies of the provisions as adopted, including the text of the above Code when it has been enacted.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.