Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) - Madagascar (Ratification: 1966)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government's report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation concerning the following matters:

For many years, the Committee had been calling the Government's attention to the fact that there were no specific laws or regulations to ensure the full application of Articles 14 and 18 of the Convention, which provide that seats shall be supplied to all workers without distinction of sex and that noise and vibrations likely to have harmful effects on workers shall be reduced as far as possible. Since 1975, the Government has stated in its reports that the Order provided for by the Labour Code of 1975 would give full effect to the above-mentioned provisions of the Convention. The Committee had noted from the Government's last report for the period ending October 1981 that no progress appeared to have been made in the adoption of this Order. The Committee trusts that this Order will be adopted in the near future and that it will give full effect to the provisions of the Convention.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.