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

Underground Work (Women) Convention, 1935 (No. 45) - Guinea-Bissau (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee notes that Act No. 2/86, April 1986, to issue the Labour Code repeals the former legislation which prohibited women from being employed in underground work, but that it provides, in section 155, that supplementary legislation will establish the circumstances or prohibition of the employment of women in this work and in other work liable to harm the genetic function of women.

While noting from the Government's report that there is no underground work in Guinea-Bissau, the Committee hopes that the necessary steps will be taken in the near future to adopt appropriate texts to bring the legislation into line with the Convention. It asks the Government to report on any progress achieved in this connection.