Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2021, published 110th ILC session (2022)

Night Work (Women) Convention (Revised), 1948 (No. 89) - Lebanon (Ratification: 1962)

The Committee 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 2 of the Convention. Definition of the term “night”. The Committee recalls its previous comment in which it had noted that draft section 36 of the revised Labour Code was expected to align the definition of the term “night” with the requirements of Article 2 of the Convention, thus providing for a period of at least 11 consecutive hours including an interval of at least seven consecutive hours falling between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. Noting from the Government’s latest report that the revision process of the Labour Code is still under way, the Committee hopes that the Government will not fail to examine, in consultation with the social partners, and in particular with women workers, the possibility of amending the national legislation. In this connection, it draws the Government’s attention to the possibility of ratifying either the 1990 Protocol to Convention No. 89, which opens up the possibility for women to work at night under certain well-circumscribed conditions, or the Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171), which applies to all night workers in all branches and occupations. It requests the Government to provide information on any decision taken or envisaged in this regard.