Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) - Senegal (Ratification: 1999)

Article 5(1) of the Convention. Exclusion from the scope of application. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the information provided by the Government that domestic work and light seasonal work such as picking and sorting on plantations, referred to in section 1 of local Order No. 3723 IT of 17 September 1954 issuing a waiver from the age of admission to employment, are included in the exclusion specified by the Government upon ratification, namely “non-remunerated traditional types of farm or rural work carried out by children under 15 years of age in the family context which are intended to improve the integration into their environment and social context”. The Government further indicates that no exemption may be granted which would be likely to violate the provisions inforce concerning compulsory schooling.