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

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

The Committee notes the information in the Government’s last report that the new draft Labour Code is being reviewed by the Committee for Consultation and Tripartite Dialogue in order to take full account of the Committee’s comments on the application of the Convention and the Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930 (No. 30). It trusts that the Government will very shortly be in a position to adopt the amended draft accordingly and that it will not fail to so inform the ILO.

The Committee wishes to recall that for many years it has been drawing the Government’s attention to the fact that the provisions of section 117 of the present Labour Code, which provide that "hours of work and pauses must be organized in such a fashion that the presence of the worker at the workplace does not exceed 11 hours a day" are liable to result in abuse, and that these provisions need to be amended so as not to require the presence of the worker at the workplace beyond the limits of normal working hours which, in accordance with Article 2 of the Convention, must not exceed eight in the day.