Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2025, Publicación: 114ª reunión CIT (2026)

Convenio sobre la edad mínima, 1973 (núm. 138) - Argentina (Ratificación : 1996)

Application in practice and labour inspection. The Committee notes that the Government has attached to its report a report of the Inspectorate for Work by Children and Young Persons and Evidence of Labour Exploitation (DITIAIEL), indicating that: (1) where child labour is found, labour inspection produces a statement of the offence, initiates proceedings before the labour administrative authority to sanction the employer, and reports the findings of child labour to the ordinary criminal justice system; (2) the purpose of all inspections is to monitor the proper registration of workers and to uncover the possible existence of work by children and young persons, and evidence of labour exploitation; and (3) child labour was detected in 54 of a total of 275,293 inspections carried out between 2021 and 2023, affecting a total of 62 children; and in 575 inspections, 582 young persons working with no registration were identified.

The Committee takes due note of the many institutional strengthening measures taken to improve the detection of child labour, including: (1) between 2021 and 2023, a number of training sessions for inspectors relating to child labour; (2) the design of two fact sheets summarizing the procedures that labour inspectors must follow when dealing with working children and young persons; (3) in 2023, the organization of the National Inspection Meeting, “Highlighting national inspection of child labour”, which included presentations by experts and workshops aimed at building the capacities of inspection of work by children and young persons; and (4) the organization of a meeting between labour inspectors, heads of the Labour Inspectorate (DNFT) and officials from the interdisciplinary team of the National Secretariat for Children, Youth, and Family (SENAF), in which views were exchanged on tools for listening to children and young persons in a context of labour exploitation, as well as for addressing such cases. The Committee welcomes the Government’s efforts and requests it to continue providing information on the measures taken to build the capacities of the labour inspection system in relation to child labour, in order to ensure its presence in all regions of the country and all sectors of the economy, including the informal economy. In this respect, it requests the Government to provide information on the measures taken and results achieved, including updated data on the number of inspections related to child labour, where possible disaggregated by region and sector, and on the nature and number of violations detected, and the penalties imposed in this regard and effectively executed.