Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1995, publiée 82ème session CIT (1995)

Article 2 of the Convention. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes the Government's indication in its report that the weekly rest provisions of the 1965 Shops and Establishments Act apply to establishments, irrespective of the number of workers, by government notifications made under section 5(2) of the Act. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide texts of the notifications applying the weekly rest provisions of the 1965 Act to establishments employing fewer than five workers. It also requests the Government to indicate the areas in which the 1965 Act does not yet apply to establishments employing less than five workers.

Article 8. The Committee notes from the Government's report that the provision of the 1965 Act permitting exemptions of weekly rest applies to some seasonal factories such as sugar mills and rice mills, on the condition that weekly rest is granted at the end of the season. It requests the Government to indicate the measures taken to ensure that when such exemptions to the weekly rest are made, all persons concerned are granted compensatory rest of a total duration at least equivalent to the period provided for under Article 6 of the Convention.