Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2002, publiée 91ème session CIT (2003)

Convention (n° 138) sur l'âge minimum, 1973 - Allemagne (Ratification: 1976)

Article 2, paragraphs 1 and 2, of the Convention. The Committee notes with satisfaction the amendment, by the Act of 23 March 2002, of the Seafarers Act of 26 July 1957, raising the minimum age for the employment of young persons on board seagoing vessels from 15 to 16 years (section 94(1)), with effect from 1 June 2002. The Committee understands that the prohibition of employment also covers, under section 94(1), young persons who remain in compulsory schooling where it continues beyond the age of 16 years. The Committee also notes that section 94(2) of the above Act prohibits the employment of young persons aged from 16 to 18 years in a number of hazardous types of work, which it enumerates.

Article 7, paragraph 3. The Committee also notes with satisfaction that, following its previous comment in which it requested the Government to provide information on the existence of an ordinance to be made under section 5(4)(a) of the Young Persons (Employment Protection) Act, of 12 April 1976, which provides that the federal Government shall define light work more precisely in an ordinance, the Government provided a copy of the Ordinance of 23 June 1998 respecting the protection of children at work, which enumerates the types of light work which may be performed by children over 13 years of age and young persons who remain in compulsory schooling.

The Committee is raising another point in a request addressed directly to the Government.