Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Social Policy (Basic Aims and Standards) Convention, 1962 (No. 117) - Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ratification: 1967)

Article 12 of the Convention. The Committee notes that the draft revised Labour Code includes relevant provisions respecting limitations on advances on wages, but that the draft has not yet been enacted. The Committee hopes that the Government will take the necessary measures to enact the draft Labour Code in the near future in order to bring the national legislation into conformity with this Article of the Convention, on which it has been commenting for a number of years. It requests the Government to refer also to the comments made this year under Convention No. 95.

Article 15. The Committee notes the importance that the Government attaches to the National Vocational Training Institute. It notes that the Government is endeavouring to provide the Institute with the appropriate means so that it can improve the quality of its services and progressively extend them throughout the whole of the country. However, it notes that the Government is encountering difficulties as a result of the economic situation. The Committee nevertheless hopes that the Government will continue to make the necessary efforts to achieve its objectives as regards this Institute. The Committee also recalls that, according to its previous reports, the Government stated that the draft revised Labour Code fixed the age of admission to employment at 16 years. The Committee hopes that the Government will soon adopt this draft text and that it will be possible in future to prescribe the school-leaving age at this same age. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the progress achieved in this respect in future reports.