Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2001, published 90th ILC session (2002)

Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1957 (No. 106) - Greenland

The Committee notes with regret 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 read as follows:

The Committee trusts that the Government will not fail to provide information on the following points in its next report so that the Committee can make a better assessment of the effect given to the provisions of the Convention.

Articles 7 and 8 of the Convention. The Committee notes that sections 42, 43 and 44 of the Act of 4 June 1986 on the working environment in Greenland provides for the possibility of derogations from the provisions of section 41, which requires the granting to the worker of a day of rest in the course of each period of seven days. It requests the Government to indicate the measures which have been taken to ensure that persons covered by special weekly rest schemes or temporary derogations are granted the minimum weekly rest period prescribed by Article 7, paragraph 2, or the compensatory rest envisaged in Article 8, paragraph 3.

Parts III and V of the report form. With reference to its previous comments, in which it noted the Government’s statement that it is difficult to ensure effective supervision of the observance of the law respecting weekly rest periods in view of the limited number of inspection staff, the Committee requests the Government to give, in so far as possible, a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, including information on the organization and operation of the inspection services and extracts from their reports, information on the number of workers covered by the legislation that is in force and the number and nature of the contraventions reported.