Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Egypt (Ratification: 1956)

Article 3(1)(b) of the Convention. Labour inspection and child labour. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its report on the present Convention and on the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138), concerning the awareness-raising activities on child labour which have been undertaken, including national and local seminars. The Committee notes with interest from the Government’s report that awareness-raising seminars were held at schools, high schools and colleges on the matters related to occupational safety and health like the preparation of an emergency plan, crisis management and fire responses. Referring also to its comments under Convention No. 138, the Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on measures adopted to reinforce the role of the labour inspectorate in the field of child labour. With reference to Paragraph 7 of the Labour Inspection Recommendation 1947 (No. 81), it requests the Government to indicate the measures adopted with a view to organizing the broad dissemination of information by the labour inspection services, through media accessible to the majority of the population (radio, television, the written press and cars equipped with megaphones) on the harm caused by child labour and the proceedings envisaged by the law against users of child labour. The Committee also requests information on the number of violations reported by labour inspectors and the sanctions applied (the amount of fines and other measures, such as the suspension of operations, imprisonment or other administrative or judicial measures) in the field of child labour, and particularly in high-risk sectors.

The Committee hopes that the Government will be able to provide information on any measure adopted in this respect and that it will ensure that statistics of the inspection services on cases of violations and the sanctions applied are published regularly, broadly disseminated and communicated to the ILO.

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.