Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2013, publiée 103ème session CIT (2014)

Convention (n° 14) sur le repos hebdomadaire (industrie), 1921 - Belize (Ratification: 1999)

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Articles 4 and 5 of the Convention. Total and partial exceptions – Compensatory rest. Further to its previous comment, the Committee notes the Government’s indications that the revision of the labour legislation has now been initiated and that the Labour Advisory Board has already concluded its examination of the provisions of the Labour Act (Chap. 297) on weekly rest. In this respect, the Committee notes with interest that the Board recommended to amend section 118 of the Labour Act so as to provide for a compensatory rest for work done on rest days. It also notes that it was proposed to allow for the postponement or accumulation of weekly rest over a certain period of time for those workers who are employed far from their place of residence and for whom it would not be impracticable to benefit from a day off every week. The Committee wishes to recall, in this connection, that Paragraph 3(a) of the Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Recommendation, 1957 (No. 103), advises that persons to whom special weekly rest schemes apply should not work for more than three weeks without receiving the rest periods to which they are entitled. However, the Committee wishes to draw the Government’s attention to section 119 of the Labour Act, which excludes broad categories of workers, such as shop assistants, from the coverage of the weekly rest provisions, and also gives wide discretionary power to the Minister of Labour to exempt any undertaking, business or class of workers from the application of the same provisions upon application being made to the commissioner by any employers’ or workers’ organization. The Committee is bound to recall that in view of the importance of the weekly rest for the workers’ health and well-being, any exceptions to the general 24-hour weekly rest rule must be in compliance with the conditions set out in the Convention (i.e. account taken of all social and economic considerations, and employers’ and workers’ organizations properly consulted) and recourse to such exceptions should be kept to what is strictly necessary. The Committee therefore requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any further progress in the process of revision of the Labour Act and to transmit a copy of the new text once it has been adopted.