Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) - Senegal (Ratification: 1999)

Article 7, paragraph 3, of the Convention. Determination of light work. The Committee notes that, under the terms of section 1(2) of Ministerial Order No. 3748 of 6 June 2003 respecting child labour and section 1(1) of Ministerial Order No. 3750 of 6 June 2003 determining the nature of hazardous types of work prohibited for children and young persons, the minimum age of 15 years may be reduced to 12 years for work performed in the family context and which is not prejudicial to the health, morals or schooling of the child. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the types of work which children of 12 years of age may undertake in the context of the above provisions and the employment conditions in which they may be undertaken.