Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2025, published 114th ILC session (2026)

Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) - Burundi (Ratification: 2000)

Article 6. Apprenticeships. The Committee previously noted that the revised Labour Code, promulgated on 24 November 2020, fixes the minimum age for apprenticeships at 14 years in enterprises, when such work is performed in accordance with the conditions prescribed by the competent authority following consultation with the relevant employers’ and workers’ organizations, and that an Ordinance determines the activities in which child labour or employment shall be authorized, as well as the conditions of child employment or labour (section 278).

The Committee takes due note of the Government’s indication that the conditions prescribed by the competent authority are as follows: (1) that the work is not likely to be harmful to the health or development of young persons and children; and that the work is not such as to prejudice their attendance at school, or their participation in vocational orientation or training programmes.

Article 9(1). Penalties. The Committee notes the absence of information received on this point and therefore once again requests the Government to provide information on the application in practice of section 618 of the 2020 Labour Code, particularly the number and nature of violations registered relating to the labour of children under the minimum age of admission to employment, as well as the number and amount of the penalties imposed.