Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention, 1946 (No. 78) - New Caledonia

The Committee notes the Government’s report.

Article 2, paragraph 1, of the Convention. Medical examination. See under Convention No. 77.

Article 7, paragraph 2(a). Young persons engaged either on their own account or on account of their parents. In its previous comments, the Committee asked the Government to indicate whether the provisions of Decision No. 266 of 17 April 1998 concerning a number of social measures could serve as the basis for a system of medical examination for fitness for employment for children and young persons engaged either on their own account or on account of their parents in itinerant trading or any other occupation carried on in the streets or a public place. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that Caledonian labour regulations do not apply to children or young persons engaged either on their own account or on account of their parents in itinerant trading. Independent workers are excluded from the scope of the current regulations concerning the medical examination of young persons. The Committee reminds the Government that, pursuant to Article 7, paragraph 2(a), of the Convention, measures of identification shall be adopted to ensure 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 (the person concerned must, for instance, be in possession of a document mentioning the medical examination). The Committee asks the Government to communicate information on the measures taken or envisaged to ensure 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.