Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

Underground Work (Women) Convention, 1935 (No. 45) - Malaysia - Peninsular (Ratification: 1957)

Other comments on C045

Direct Request

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2014
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Replies received to the issues raised in a direct request which do not give rise to further comments

2015

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The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comments.

Repetition
The Committee notes that the Government in its report refers to the Factories and Machinery Act, 1967 and the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 1994 as the relevant legislation applying the Convention. According to this legislation there would be no specific provisions related to the gender of persons employed, but that all workers are protected equally. However, according to available information, section 35 of the Employment Act of 1955, referred to in previous reports, remains in force and continues to prohibit underground work for women. The Government is requested to clarify whether section 35 of the Employment Act of 1955, which gives effect to Article 2 of the Convention, remains in force or not.