Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2019, published 109th ILC session (2021)

Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) - Uruguay (Ratification: 2001)

Article 4(1) and (3) of the Convention. Determination and revision of the list of hazardous types of work. In its previous comments, the Committee requested the Government to ensure that the national legislation determined the hazardous types of work prohibited for persons under 18 years of age.

The Committee notes with satisfaction that the Uruguayan Institute for Children and Young Persons revised and substituted the list of hazardous types of work (Resolution No. 1012/006) with a new detailed list (Resolution No. 3344/2017), which determines the hazardous types of work prohibited for persons under 18 years of age, in a number of categories. Firstly, the hazardous types of work in which children are exposed to physical, chemical, ergonomic, biological or psychosocial risks. Secondly, the types of work that are hazardous by their nature, including, for example, work in: establishments selling weapons; pyrotechnic activities; logging activities; transport activities on the high seas or inland waterways; industrial, semi-industrial or small-scale fishing activities; mines; agrochemicals; the sale of alcohol; and waste sorting and recycling.

The Committee also notes that the National Committee for the Elimination of Child Labour revised the list in conjunction with employers’ and workers’ organizations and, from 2017 to 2018, a total of 336 public officials and social actors, as well as 22 labour inspectors received training on the new list of hazardous work prohibited for persons under 18 years of age. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the application in practice of Resolution No. 3344/2017, particularly on the number and nature of the violations involving the engagement of young persons in hazardous work.

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.