Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2023, published 112nd ILC session (2024)

Minimum Age (Underground Work) Convention, 1965 (No. 123) - Gabon (Ratification: 1968)

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Articles 4(4)(a) and (b) and 5 of the Convention. Records of persons who are employed or work underground. The Committee notes the Government’s indication, in its report, that under section 295 of the Labour Code, the employer must keep a constantly up-to-date record at the workplace containing a complete list of the workers which must be kept available for the labour inspectorate. The information which it must contain is fixed by regulation. The Committee notes that section 295 of the Labour Code does not specify that the records must also be made available to workers’ representatives, at their request. The Government indicates that a committee drafting the implementing regulations for the new Labour Code is updating General Order No. 3018 of 29 September 1953 establishing the model for employers’ records. The Committee requests the Government to take the necessary steps to require that lists established in accordance with Article 4(5) shall be made available to workers’ representatives, at their request. It also requests the Government to ensure that these lists indicate in particular the date of birth of all workers under 21 years of age and the date on which persons were employed or worked underground for the enterprise for the first time.

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