Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2013, publiée 103ème session CIT (2014)

Convention (n° 89) sur le travail de nuit (femmes) (révisée), 1948 - Madagascar (Ratification: 2008)

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Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention and Article 1 of the Protocol. Exemptions from the prohibition of night work for women. The Committee notes the comments of the General Confederation of Workers’ Unions of Madagascar (FISEMA) concerning the application of this Convention and of the Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171). According to the FISEMA, despite the ratification of Conventions Nos 89 and 171, no major modification has so far been introduced in the Labour Code or its implementing regulations concerning night work. The FISEMA indicates that in March 2013, a draft decree regulating night work was submitted to the National Labour Council for examination, but this text, in the FISEMA’s view, gives partial or no effect to several provisions of Convention No. 171, including the provisions on social services, first-aid facilities and the consultation of workers’ representatives. The FISEMA further adds that the draft decree empowers the Minister of Labour to authorize the night work of women in export processing zones, which could possibly carry a risk of abuse. The Committee requests the Government to transmit any comments it may wish to make in response to the observations of the FISEMA and to keep the Office informed of any progress made concerning the finalization of the decree on night work.

Moreover, the Committee wishes once again to recall that the ratification of Convention No. 89 involves the immediate denunciation of Convention No. 41 but has no similar legal effect with regard to Convention No. 4 which has to be denounced separately (Convention No. 4 may be denounced at any time provided that the representative organizations of employers and workers are fully consulted in advance). The Committee therefore requests the Government to take appropriate steps with respect to obsolete Convention No. 4 in the very near future and to keep the Office informed accordingly.