Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2025, published 114th ILC session (2026)

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Underground Work) Convention, 1965 (No. 124) - Mexico (Ratification: 1968)

Article 2(1) of the Convention. Prior medical examination and periodic re-examinations for employment or work underground of persons under 21 years of age. The Committee notes that section 175(IV) of the Federal Labour Law prohibits employing young persons under 18 years of age in dangerous work which, in accordance with section 176, includes mining. The Committee observes that work in mines is permitted for young persons between the ages of 18 and 21 years but does not find provisions requiring a thorough medical examination and periodic re-examinations at intervals of not more than one year for these young persons, as required by Article 2(1) of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the measures adopted to ensure that a thorough medical examination, and periodic re-examinations at intervals of not more than one year, shall be required for fitness for employment or work underground in mines for persons under 21 years of age. 

Article 4(4) and (5). Keeping of registers. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the measures taken to ensure that employers shall maintain and make available to inspectors, and to workers’ representatives upon request, records containing, with respect to persons under 21 years of age employed or working in underground work, certificates attesting to their fitness for employment.