Observación (CEACR) - Adopción: 2003, Publicación: 92ª reunión CIT (2004)

The Government indicates the difficulties which have continued to prevent it from revising the General Labour Code of 1942 in line with the Committee’s previous comments. The Committee, nevertheless, cannot but regret once again that the Government has not retained the General Labour Bill drawn up with ILO technical assistance.

The Committee has for a considerable number of years been referring to section 50 of the above Act which provides that the labour inspectorate may authorize up to two additional hours of work per day under any circumstances, whereas under the provisions of Article 7 of the Convention temporary exceptions to the normal working day may only be granted in the event of abnormal pressures of work determined under paragraph 2(b), (c) and (d), and paragraph 3 of the same Article provides that a maximum number of additional hours of work which may be allowed in the day and in the year must be determined.

The Committee notes the Government’s renewed request for technical assistance to be provided to a tripartite committee in charge of the revision of the relevant national law. It again expresses the hope that any results achieved will be translated into action very soon.

[The Government is asked to report in detail in 2005.]