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

Convenio sobre la abolición del trabajo forzoso, 1957 (núm. 105) - China - Región Administrativa Especial de Hong Kong (Ratificación : 1997)

Article 1(c) of the Convention. Punishment for breaches of labour discipline. With regard to its previous comments concerning the application of section 21(a) of the Prisons Ordinance (Cap. 234), which establish penalties of imprisonment (which involves an obligation to work) to officers of the Correctional Services Department or employees in the prisons who absents himself from his duties, the Committee notes the Government’s information that there have been no cases in this regard. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on the application of section 21(a) of the Prisons Ordinance in practice, indicating the number of persons punished, the facts that led to the conviction, and the penalties applied.