Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Minimum Age (Underground Work) Convention, 1965 (No. 123) - Gabon (Ratification: 1968)

Article 4(4)(b) and (5) of the Convention. Records of persons who are employed or work underground. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes General Order No. 3018 of 29 September 1953 establishing the model for the employer’s register. It observes that, although section 2 of the Order requires the employer’s register to specify the date of entry into the establishment, and the age of the worker, the requirements of Article 4(4)(b) and 5, of the Convention are not all met. The Committee therefore requests the Government to take the necessary measures to bring General Order No. 3018 into conformity with the requirements of Article 4(4)(b) and (5) of the Convention, by providing that the lists of the persons under 21 years of age who are employed or work underground shall be made available to workers’ representatives, and that such lists shall contain the dates of birth of such persons.