Canada's ILO Minimum Age Convention 138 Treaty Text

A treaty text document outlining the International Labour Organization's Convention 138, which sets minimum age standards for employment to abolish child labour. The document is an archived publication from Global Affairs Canada, last updated in the system on April 2, 2026, but the content itself is noted as being out of date. The convention entered into force for Canada in 2017.

Use Cases

• Analyze the specific legal clauses and definitions within the treaty text for comparative legal studies.
• Extract dates and ratification details, such as the 2017 entry into force for Canada, for timeline analysis.
• Parse the treaty's articles on minimum age standards and permissible work for young persons for policy compliance checks.

Strengths

• Provides the full, authoritative treaty text of ILO Convention 138.
• Explicitly states the convention's entry into force date for Canada (2017).

Limitations

• The document is explicitly flagged as archived and out of date, indicating potential staleness.
• Available only in PDF format, which requires parsing for computational analysis.
• No structured data (e.g., rows, columns) is provided, only unstructured text.

Provenance

Source

Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada.

Collection Method

Published treaty text, likely a formal government publication.

Time Range

Convention entered into force for Canada in 2017; publication date is unknown but archived.

Freshness

Content is archived and not updated; system record shows 2026-04-02 but this is not a content update.

Geography

Primary focus is Canada's adherence to an international convention.