Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2022, published 111st ILC session (2023)

Night Work (Women) Convention (Revised), 1948 (No. 89) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1960)

The Committee notes the observations of the Costa Rican Federation of Chambers and Associations of Private Enterprise (UCCAEP) on the Convention, submitted together with the Government's report.

Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention. General prohibition of night work for women in industrial undertakings. The Committee welcomes the Government's indication in its report that section 88(b) of the Labour Code establishing the prohibition of night work for women was repealed by Act No. 9758 of 29 October 2019. In this regard, the Committee wishes to recall that pregnant and breastfeeding women may be particularly vulnerable to night work, and it emphasizes the importance of women night workers in this situation being given an alternative to night work (see the 2018 General Survey concerning working-time instruments, para. 545). Consequently, the Committee requests the Government to provide information on the measures taken or envisaged to protect women night workers with regard to maternity. Further noting that the country is still bound by the Night Work (Women) (Revised) Convention, 1948 (No. 89), and that the window for denunciation of the Convention will be open from 27 February 2031 to 27 February 2032, the Committee invites the Government to envisage its denunciation at the appropriate time.