Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Industry) Convention, 1946 (No. 77) - Comoros (Ratification: 1978)

The Committee notes the observations of the Workers’ Confederation of Comoros (CTC) of 16 August 2016 and requests the Government to provide its comments in this respect. It also notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that the next report will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comments.

Repetition

Article 6 of the Convention. Physical and vocational rehabilitation of children and young persons declared unsuited to certain types of work. In its previous comments, the Committee noted that the national legislation contained no provisions giving effect to this provision of the Convention, and noted the repeated statements by the Government that draft implementing regulations for the Labour Code were under examination.

The Committee notes that the new Labour Code in Comoros was adopted in 2012 by Act No. 12-167. Pursuant to section 130 of the Code, the labour and labour law inspectors may require the examination of children by a registered physician with a view to ensuring that the work they have been assigned does not exceed their strength. Children may not continue to be assigned to such work. The Government also indicates that an order on the types of work and categories of enterprises prohibited for young persons was adopted and published in 2014. The Government indicates that under section 17 of the order, children hired for work that they are prohibited to perform have to be reassigned to work that is suited to them. However, the Committee reminds the Government that Article 6 of the Convention requires appropriate measures to be taken by the competent authority for the vocational guidance and physical and vocational rehabilitation of children and young persons found by medical examination to be unsuited to certain types of work or to have physical handicaps or limitations. The Committee emphasizes that this situation also occurs in jobs that are not generally prohibited for young persons, but in which they are found to be unsuited to work that would otherwise be allowed. The Committee therefore requests the Government to indicate the specific measures taken by the competent authority for the vocational guidance and physical and vocational rehabilitation of children and young persons found by medical examination to be unsuited to certain types of work or to have physical handicaps or limitations, in accordance with Article 6(1).