Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 1990, Publicación: 77ª reunión CIT (1990)

Article 5 of the Convention. The Committee notes from the Government's last report that the Government of Pondichery has from time to time authorised exemptions from the prohibition on night work in three textile factories, by virtue of section 5 of the Factories Act of 1948.

The Committee asks the Government to state in what circumstances these exemptions were granted and to indicate the employers' and workers' organisations that were consulted. It recalls that under Article 5 of the Convention, the prohibition of night work for women may be suspended only when, in case of serious emergency, the national interest demands it, and after consultation with the employers' and workers' organisations concerned. It requests the Government to provide information it its future reports, on any other cases where exemptions from the prohibition of night work for women may have been authorised.