Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention, 1946 (No. 78) - Cuba (Ratification: 1954)

In regard to Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7(1) of the Convention, the Committee requests the Government to refer to the comments it has made in relation to Convention No. 77.

Article 7(2)(a). Supervision of the application of the system of medical examination for fitness for employment to children and young persons engaged either on their own account or on account of their parents. Referring to its previous comments, in which it noted that there is no provision for measures of identification for ensuring the application of this system of medical examination of fitness for employment to children and young persons engaged either on their own account or on account of their parents in itinerant trading or in any other occupation carried on in the streets or in places to which the public have access, the Committee notes with interest that pursuant to section 3, paragraph 12, of Decree Law No. 174 of 1997 on personal contraventions of the labour regulations for a person’s own account, it is prohibited to employ a child of less than 18 years of age for an occupation on his own account.