Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2003, published 92nd ILC session (2004)

Night Work (Women) Convention (Revised), 1948 (No. 89) - Cameroon (Ratification: 1970)

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 direct request, which read as follows:

Article 8 of the Convention. The Committee notes that under section 82(3)(b) of the Labour Code, Act No. 92/007 of 14 August 1992, the prohibition of night work for women does not apply to women working in services not involving manual work. The Committee recalls, in this connection, that the Convention only allows for the exemption of women employed in health and welfare services who are not ordinarily engaged in manual work. The Committee therefore requests the Government to indicate the measures taken or envisaged to ensure that the authorized exemptions from the prohibition of women’s night work are limited to the forms of employment set out in this Article of the Convention.

Part V of the report form. The Committee would be grateful if the Government could supply in its next report all available information on the practical application of the Convention, including, for instance, extracts from official reports, statistics from inspection services providing data on the number of workers covered by the legislation, on the number and nature of contraventions reported or on the application of the exceptions under Article 4, as well as information on any practical difficulties encountered in the application of the Convention and any other particulars bearing on the practical implementation of the requirements prescribed by the Convention. The Committee wishes to stress the importance of the facts and data communicated under Part V of the report form and to recall that this is the main channel through which the Committee obtains official information enabling it to follow the evolution of national laws and practice in matters covered by the Convention.

The Committee takes this opportunity to invite the Government to give favourable consideration to the ratification of either the Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171), or the Protocol of 1990 to Convention No. 89.