Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

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

Article 3 of the Convention. General prohibition of night work for women. The Committee recalls its previous comment in which it drew the Government’s attention to the need to progressively eliminate any provisions contrary to the principle of equal treatment between men and women, except those connected with maternity protection, and accordingly consider the ratification of the Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171), which seeks to improve the quality of working life of all night workers, both men and women, in all branches and occupations. In its last report, the Government indicates that the draft new Labour Code is now before the parliament for examination and adoption without specifying, however, whether the points previously raised by the Committee in relation to the existing Labour Code of 1987 have been duly taken into account in finalizing the new legislative text. Under the circumstances, the Committee once again invites the Government to review gender-specific prohibitions or restrictions to night work and to modernize its legislation, in consultation with the social partners, and in particular with women workers, so as to ensure that the same standards of protection apply to men and women alike in accordance with the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), and the widely ratified UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The Committee accordingly requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any progress in the process of adoption of the new Labour Code and the possible ratification of Convention No. 171, and recalls that the Government may, if it so wishes, draw on the technical assistance of the Office on these matters.