Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 (No. 1) - Syrian Arab Republic (Ratification: 1960)

Article 6 of the Convention. The Committee takes note of the information supplied by the Government to the effect that a Tripartite Committee has been established to examine the question of follow-up to the Committee's comments on the application of the Convention.

With reference to its previous observation, the Committee recalls that, in its 1984 report, the Government provided a draft legislative decree, amending section 117 of the Labour Code, which allows the worker to be present at the workplace for up to 11 hours daily. As the Committee has already pointed out several times, this situation is liable to result in abuses since any worker may, in practice, be subject to employment conditions that should only be applicable to workers whose work is particularly intermittent.

The Committee trusts that the necessary measures will be taken in the very near future to amend section 117 of the Labour Code in such a way that, with the exception of cases of intermittent work, the presence of the worker shall not be required at the workplace outside the authorised hours of work. It requests the Government to inform the Office of any new developments in this regard.