Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 1994, Publicación: 81ª reunión CIT (1994)

Convenio (revisado) sobre el trabajo nocturno (mujeres), 1948 (núm. 89) - India (Ratificación : 1950)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the following matters raised in its previous direct request:

Article 5 of the Convention. The Committee noted from the Government's last report that the Government of Pondichery has from time to time authorized exemptions from the prohibition on night work in three textile factories, by virtue of section 5 of the Factories Act of 1948.

The Committee asked the Government to state in what circumstances these exemptions were granted and to indicate the employers' and workers' organizations that were consulted. It recalled that under Article 5 of the Convention, the prohibition of night work for women may be suspended only when, in case of serious emergency, the national interest demands it, and after consultation with the employers' and workers' organizations concerned. It requested the Government to provide information on any other cases where exemptions from the prohibition of night work for women may have been authorized.