Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2003, published 92nd ILC session (2004)

Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention. In its reply to the Committee’s previous observation, the Government does not indicate how conformity with the provisions of the Convention is ensured with respect to workers who are excluded from the application of the Labour Code (section 2 of Law No. 38 of 1964), i.e., domestic workers and workers who are provided for by other laws. The Committee therefore asks the Government again to provide detailed information on this issue and copies of any relevant legal texts.

Article 6, paragraph 1(b). The Government still endeavours to determine the conditions in which recourse to overtime is permitted and to fix a reasonable annual limit to the number of additional hours of work in the public industrial sector, similarly to Order No. 104/94 concerning private industrial undertakings. The Committee regrets that the Government has not been able to achieve progress in this field and it expresses once again the hope that the Government will take the necessary action in the near future to render its legislation compatible with the requirements of the Convention. Please keep the ILO informed of any relevant developments in the matter.

Recalling the Government’s commitment to extending the application of the forthcoming Labour Law in the private sector to all categories of workers, the Committee urges the Government to make every effort to adopt the new law, whose draft has been under consideration for many years, very soon.