Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2017, published 107th ILC session (2018)

Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) - Dominican Republic (Ratification: 1999)

Article 5 of the Convention. Limitation of the scope of application of the Convention to certain branches of economic activity. The Committee previously recalled that, when it ratified the Convention, the Dominican Republic declared that it was initially limiting the scope of application of the Convention to the branches of economic activity and types of enterprises set out in Article 5(3) of the Convention, namely: mining and quarrying; manufacturing; construction; electricity; gas and water; sanitary services; transport, storage and communication; and plantations and other agricultural enterprises mainly producing for commercial purposes, but excluding family and small-scale holdings producing for local consumption and not regularly employing hired workers.

The Government indicates that on 2 August 2013 it ratified the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189). The Committee recalls that Article 5(4) of Convention No. 138 allows the Member to extend the scope of application of the Convention by a declaration addressed to the Director-General of the ILO. The Committee therefore invites the Government to address a declaration to the Director- General of the ILO to extend the scope of application of the Convention to include domestic work carried out by children.