Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1957 (No. 106) - Belarus (Ratification: 1968)

Article 8, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Convention. Temporary exemptions to weekly rest. Section 142 of the Labour Code provides for the possibility for work on a weekly rest day at the request of the employer with the consent of workers. While it notes the Government’s reply to its previous direct request on this issue, the Committee requests the Government to provide in more detail the mechanisms of how it ensures that granting of exemptions from weekly rest under section 142 are taken after consultations with the representative employers’ and workers’ organizations concerned.

Article 8, paragraph 3. Compensatory rest. Section 146, paragraph 1, of the Labour Code states that compensation may take the form of an extra day of rest or supplementary payment. While the Committee notes the Government’s reply, it reminds the Government that the Convention does not allow remuneration in lieu of compensatory periods of rest for work carried out on a day of weekly rest. It requests the Government to undertake the necessary steps in the near future to amend this section of the Labour Code in order to bring it into full conformity with the Convention and to supply information on the progress achieved in its next report.

Part V of the report form. The Committee requests the Government to supply extracts from the reports of the inspection services and information concerning the number of persons employed in commerce and offices covered by the relevant legislation, as well as the number and nature of the contraventions reported.