Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2017, published 107th ILC session (2018)

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

Article 2(1) and (2) of the Convention. Raising the minimum age for admission to employment. The Committee previously noted that the Government had raised the minimum age from 14 to 15 years in its national legislation and policies, and requested the Government to indicate any steps taken or envisaged to submit a declaration to notify the Director-General of the International Labour Office in this respect.

The Committee notes that the Government now indicates that the minimum age for employment or work has not been raised from 14 to 15 in its current legislation and policies. However, the Committee notes that, according to article 177(1) of the Labour Law, the “allowable minimum age for wage employment is set at fifteen years”. The Committee therefore expresses the hope that the Government will envisage submitting a declaration under Article 2(2) of the Convention to notify the Director-General of the International Labour Office that it has raised the minimum age for work or employment to 15 years, in line with Cambodia’s current Labour Law.