Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2003, published 92nd ILC session (2004)

Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14) - Gabon (Ratification: 1960)

In reply to the Committee’s previous comments, the Government indicates that the collective agreement of 22 June 1983 related to the urban transport sector, and the collective agreement of 12 December 1985 related to work on docks, seas and rivers, each refer to the internal regulations each undertaking may provide on the distribution of daily and weekly working hours.

Articles 2, 4, 5 and 6 of the Convention. The practice, indicated by the Government, that, in the urban transport sector and in operations connected with dock work and transport on inland waterways, it is at the discretion of each employer to determine the extent to which rest periods are granted to workers, appears to imply the possibility of abuses. The Committee therefore asks the Government for clarification on the measures by which it ensures that compensatory rest periods are granted, as far as possible, where exceptions from the normal weekly rest scheme of not less than 24 continuous hours in the course of each period of seven days are made.

The Committee further requests the Government to include information on the transport of passengers or goods by road other than urban transport and transport by rail.

Please also supply a list of the exceptions made, indicating separately: (a) the total exceptions; and (b) the partial exceptions, distinguishing in the latter case suspensions and diminutions and giving as much information as possible regarding such suspensions and diminutions.