Conventions
- Convention No. 59
(revised 1937) – Convention Fixing the Minimum Age for Admission of Children to Industrial Employment), prohibits the employment of children under the age of 15.
- Convention No. 77
(1944) – Convention Concerning Medical Examination for Fitness for Employment in Industry of Children and Young Persons, requires medical examinations as an employment prerequisite for those below 18 years of age. Children under 18 years of age shall not be admitted to employment unless they have been found fit for the work for which they are to be employed by a thorough medical examination.
- Convention No. 90
(1948) – Convention Concerning Nightwork of Young Persons Employed in Industry, disallowing children below 18 years of age to be employed during the night in any public or private industrial undertaking or in any branch thereof, except as provided for.
- Convention No. 138
(1973) – Convention Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment), provides that the minimum age of employment shall not be less than the age of completion of compulsory schooling and, in any case, shall not be less than 15 years. It covers all economic sectors and all employment or work, whether or not such are performed under a contract of employment.
- Convention No. 182
(1999) – Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor), defines the worst forms of child labor. The Convention is the primary instrument on which the Time-Bound Approach, as an implementation mechanism, is based.
- Convention on the Rights of the Child [1990]
