Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2018, published 108th ILC session (2019)

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

Article 2(2) of the Convention. Raising the minimum age for admission to employment or work to 15 years. In its previous comments, the Committee requested the Government to consider the possibility of communicating to the Director-General of the ILO a declaration indicating that Ecuador has raised the minimum age for admission to employment from 14 to 15 years.

The Committee notes with satisfaction the Government’s declaration that the minimum age for admission to employment has been raised to 15 years, in accordance with Article 2(2) of the Convention.

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