Medical Examination of Young Persons (Underground Work) Convention, 1965 (No. 124) - Jordan (Ratification: 1966)

Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Article 2(1) of the Convention. Medical examination of persons under 21 years of age prior to underground work in mines. The Committee takes due note of the Government’s information, in its report, regarding the regulatory framework surrounding the requirements to ensure the fitness of workers in various sectors of employment.

The Committee notes that young persons under the age of 18 are prohibited from employment in mining, by virtue of the Decision of the Ministry of Labour of 2011 relating to hazardous, stressful or health-jeopardizing work for juveniles, promulgated pursuant to section 74 of Labour Law No. 8 of 1996.

For individuals aged 18 to 21 engaged in mining, the Government refers to Regulation No. 32 of 2023, which covers preventive and curative medical care for workers in various establishments. This regulation contains numerous legal provisions aimed at ensuring worker fitness. According to Section 4, every employer or manager must arrange for periodic medical examinations to maintain workers’ health and fitness. These examinations follow guidelines established in 1999 regarding workers’ initial medical examinations at establishments, which also include several provisions for ensuring worker fitness. Section 2 provides that all individuals must undergo an initial medical examination before employment to ensure they are fit for work in various sectors, including mining. Section 3 mandates that these medical examinations include lung function tests for workers exposed to dust.

Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

See under general observations, as follows:

For a number of years the Committee has been making comments on the need to take measures to give full effect to certain provisions of Conventions Nos. 119, 120 and 124, and the Government has stated that these comments will be taken into account in the draft of the new Labour Code. The Committee notes from the Government's most recent reports that the procedure for the adoption of the new Labour Code does not appear to have made progress. It can only express the hope that the draft Labour Code will be adopted in the near future, or that the Government will take other appropriate measures to give effect to the provisions of these Conventions, and that the next report on each of these Conventions will indicate the measures taken for this purpose.