Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Further to its earlier comments, the Committee notes with satisfaction that the Labour (Amendment) Act, 1988, which was adopted on 16 December 1988, includes a provision repealing the Rodrigues Labour Regulations 1882, under which persons who have no means of subsistence and who, although fit to work, do not habitually work in any trade or profession, could be sentenced to imprisonment.