Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Night Work (Women) Convention (Revised), 1948 (No. 89) - Iraq (Ratification: 1967)

The Committee takes note of the information provided by the Government in its report.

The Committee notes that by virtue of section 83(3)(a) of Act No. 71 of 27 July 1987 promulgating the Labour Code, the general prohibition of night work for women does not apply to women workers engaged in administrative work. The Committee requests the Government to indicate whether such exemption would also cover women engaged in administrative work in industrial undertakings. The Committee recalls, in this connection, that under Article 3 of the Convention, women may not be employed during the night in any public or private industrial undertaking irrespective of the specific type of work, service or activity performed within such undertaking, and that therefore the only possible exemptions are those limited to the forms of employment set out in Article 8 of the Convention.

The Committee hopes that the Government will take the measures to ensure that national legislation is brought into conformity with the abovementioned provisions of the Convention.

The Committee takes this opportunity to invite the Government to give favourable consideration to the ratification of either the Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171) or the Protocol of 1990 to Convention No. 89.