Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Night Work of Young Persons (Industry) Convention (Revised), 1948 (No. 90) - Mexico (Ratification: 1956)

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee refers to its previous comments in which it pointed out that section 60 of the Federal Labour Act, which defines night work as a period of ten consecutive hours, does not give effect to this Article of the Convention which fixes at 12 consecutive hours the night period during which the work of young persons under 18 years of age in industry is prohibited.

While noting the detailed information supplied by the Government in its report, the Committee points out that under the provisions of sections 60 and 175 of the Federal Labour Act, in their present wording, a rest period of less than 12 consecutive hours between two periods of work is possible. Thus, for example, a young person working from 12 noon to 8 p.m. and resuming work at 6 a.m. the next day would have only ten consecutive hours of rest instead of the 12 hours prescribed in this Article of the Convention.

Since, according to the report, the procedure to revise the Federal Labour Act has begun, the Committee hopes that the necessary amendments will be made in order to bring the Act into conformity with the Convention. It asks the Governmnt to report on any progress achieved in this connection.