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

Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) - Central African Republic (Ratification: 2000)

Article 2(1) of the Convention. Scope of application and minimum age for admission to employment or work. Family enterprises. In its previous comments the Committee noted that, under section 2 of Order No. 006 of 21 May 1986 determining the conditions of employment of young workers, the types of work and the categories of enterprises that are prohibited for young persons and the age limit up to which this prohibition applies, children under 14 years of age may be employed, even as apprentices, in establishments in which only family members are engaged. The Committee also noted that section 259 of the Labour Code of 2009 provides that children may not be employed in any enterprise, even as apprentices, before the age of 14 years, unless an exception is issued by order of the minister responsible for labour further to the opinion of the Standing National Labour Council.

The Committee notes the Government’s indication that no exceptions have been granted under section 259 of the Labour Code.