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

Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1957 (No. 106) - Cameroon (Ratification: 1988)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which reads as follows:

The Committee notes, according to the information provided by the Government in its report and the provisions of sections 10 to 12 of Order No. 22 of 27 May 1969, inserted into Chapter II "Derogations from the principle of weekly rest", section I "Derogations from compensatory rest", that the weekly rest period may be suspended without compensatory rest in the event of urgent work, such as the prevention of imminent accidents, repairs following accidents, saving harvests or perishable goods and, with a maximum of six suspensions per year, in enterprises authorized to work overtime hours. The Committee draws the Government's attention to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph 3, of the Convention, under which, where temporary exceptions are made under the conditions set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 of the same Article, compensatory rest shall be granted of a total duration at least equivalent to the period provided for under Article 6. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures which have been taken or are envisaged to bring the provisions of the legislation into conformity with the Convention.