Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14) - Bahrain (Ratification: 1981)

The Committee notes the information provided by the Government, including Regulation No. 604 respecting, among other matters, the rules governing weekly rest in the public service. Although it is explicitly provided in Regulation No. 604 that compensatory rest shall be granted where work has to be carried out on an official weekly rest day, the Committee nevertheless notes that section 80 of Legislative Decree No. 14 of 1993, amending the Law respecting labour in the private sector, provides for the possibility of paying remuneration at a rate of 150 per cent of the normal wage in place of such rest. The Committee wishes to draw the Government’s attention to the provisions of Article 5 of the Convention, under the terms of which compensatory periods of rest shall be granted for any suspension or diminution of the weekly period of rest. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures which have been taken or are envisaged to give full effect to this Article of the Convention.