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

Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) - Mauritius (Ratification: 1990)

Article 2(1) of the Convention. Minimum age for admission to employment. In its previous comments, the Committee had noted with satisfaction that the Labour Act was amended in 2006 to raise the minimum age for employment to 16 years (section 3(a) of the Labour (Amendment) Act 2006) from the age of 15 years specified at the time of ratification. The Committee takes this opportunity to draw the Government’s attention to the provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 2 of the Convention, which provides that any Member having ratified this Convention may subsequently notify the Director-General of the International Labour Office, by a new declaration, that it has raised the minimum age that it had previously specified. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would consider the possibility of sending a declaration of this nature to the Office.