Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14) - Portugal (Ratification: 1928)

The Committee notes the adoption of Act No. 99/2003 of 27 August 2003 issuing the Labour Code, Act No. 35/2004 of 29 July 2004 issuing regulations under the Labour Code and Legislative Decree No. 237/2007 of 19 June 2007 which transposes into national law Directive 2002/15/EC on the organization of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities.

Part V of the report form. Practical application. The Committee notes the statistical information supplied by the Authority Conditions of Work (ACT) for the 2003–07 period, and also the statistical data supplied by the Autonomous Region of the Azores (RAA). It also notes the comments from the General Confederation of Workers (UGT), which declares that the Portuguese trade union movement, aware of the vital importance of weekly rest for the physical and mental recuperation of workers and their safety and health, has always campaigned for increasing the number of weekly rest days and reducing daily working hours. The UGT also refers to the change in the law in 1991 and the adoption of collective agreements providing for two rest days, thereby combining the weekly rest day with an additional rest day. The Committee requests the Government to continue supplying general information on the way in which the Convention is applied, including, in particular, statistical information on the number of workers covered by the legislation, extracts of activity reports of the ACT indicating the number and nature of infringements reported and penalties imposed, copies of collective agreements containing clauses on weekly rest, etc.