"ILO: Convention No 138 (1973) Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Emplyment (entry into force 1976)" [2005] ELECD 253; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 30

Section Title: ILO: Convention No 138 (1973) Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Emplyment (entry into force 1976)

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

30. ILO: Convention No 138 (1973) Concerning
Minimum Age for Admission to Employment
(entry into force 1976)

Commentary: This Convention revised earlier Minimum Age Conventions and
Recommendations with respect to Industry (1919 & 1937), Sea (1920 & 1936),
Agriculture (1921), Trimmers and Stokers (1921), Non-Industrial Employment (1932
& 1937), Fishermen (1959) and Underground Work (1965). See further,
Recommendation No 146 (1973) concerning the Minimum Age. See also, ILO
Convention No 79 (1946) concerning Night Work of Young Persons (Non-Industrial
Occupations) (entry into force 1950); Convention No 90 (1948) concerning Night
Work of Young Persons (Industry) (entry into force 1951) as revised.




Article 1
Each Member for which this Convention is in force undertakes to pursue a national policy
designed to ensure the effective abolition of child labour and to raise progressively the mini-
mum age for admission to employment or work to a level consistent with the fullest physi-
cal and mental development of young persons.


Article 2
1. Each Member which ratifies this Convention shall specify, in a declaration appended to
its ratification, a minimum age for admission to employment or work within its territory
and on means of transport registered in its territory; subject to Articles 4 to 8 of this
Convention, no one under that age shall be admitted to employment or work in any
occupation.
3. The minimum age specified in pursuance of paragraph 1 of this Article shall not be less
than the age of completion of compulsory schooling and, in any case, shall not be ...