Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

Article 3 of the Convention. Declaration of application to certain establishments. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the information that the national legislation on workers’ entitlement to weekly rest applies across the board. The Committee observes in this connection that the Government provides no information on any declaration of application to the following establishments: (a) establishments, institutions and administrative services providing personal services; (b) post and telecommunications services; (c) newspaper undertakings; (d) theatres and places of public entertainment. The Committee reminds the Government, that according to Article 3, paragraph 3, of the Convention, each Member which has ratified the Convention shall indicate in its annual reports the extent to which effect has been given, or is proposed to be given, to the provisions of the Convention in respect of the establishments referred to above and any progress made in applying the Convention progressively in such establishments. It therefore once again asks the Government to consider the possibility of sending a declaration to the Office indicating that it accepts the obligations of the Convention with regard to these establishments.

Part V of the report form. Practical application. The Committee requests the Government to provide general information on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, including, for example, extracts of reports by the inspection services indicating the number and nature of contraventions of the rules on weekly rest and the penalties imposed, information on the number of workers covered by the legislation, copies of collective agreements containing clauses on weekly rest, etc.