Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2022, published 111st ILC session (2023)

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

The Committee notes the observations of the General Confederation of Labour of the Argentine Republic (CGT RA), received on 1 September 2021.

Article 3 of the Convention. Worst forms of child labour. Clause (d). Hazardous types of work. In its previous comments, the Committee noted the adoption of Decree No. 1117/2016 determining the list of hazardous types of work prohibited for persons under 18 years of age and requested the Government to provide information on the effect given to the Decree. The Committee notes with concern that, according to the Survey of Activities by Boys, Girls and Young Persons (EANNA) 2016-17, a total of 538,871 boys, girls and young persons between the ages of five and 17 years engaged in work perform hazardous types of work: 117,377 in rural areas and 421,494 in urban areas. Moreover, one in every three boys, girls and young persons are tired by the work they perform; around one in three indicate that they suffer from excessive cold or heat in carrying out their work; and one in four boys and girls who work in urban areas carry out their work in the street or a means of transport. Moreover, the CGT RA indicates in its observations that boys and girls under 18 years of age are engaged in types of work that are prohibited by Decree No. 1117/2016. The Committee urges the Government to take the necessary measures to ensure that the legislation on hazardous types of work is applied effectively so that no boy, girl or young person under 18 years of age is engaged in types of work which, by their nature or the circumstances in which they are carried out, are likely to harm their health, safety or morals. In this regard, it requests the Government to provide information on the number of violations of Decree No. 1117/2016 that have been detected and the penalties imposed.

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