Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Hours of Work and Rest Periods (Road Transport) Convention, 1979 (No. 153) - Iraq (Ratification: 1985)

Article 6, paragraph 3, of the Convention. Transport activities carried out in particularly difficult conditions. The Committee recalls its previous comment in which it had requested the Government to supply any decisions taken as regards transport activities carried out in particularly difficult conditions and, in particular, the drivers concerned and the reduced total driving times applicable to them. The Committee notes the Government’s statement that daily and weekly limits to hours of work are determined in accordance with the Labour Code and may not exceed 48 hours per week. The Committee understands that the process of adoption of the new draft Labour Code is at an advanced stage and that the text is currently examined by the State Consultative Council. In this connection, the Committee notes that section 59(3) of the new draft Labour Code provides that the number of hours of work per day is reduced for work that is arduous or harmful to the health. These types of work, and the maximum number of working hours applicable to them, will be determined by instructions to be issued by the Ministry, based on proposals of the National Center for Occupational Health and Safety. The Committee requests the Government to keep the Office informed of all future developments in this regard and to transmit a copy of the new labour legislation once it has been adopted.

Article 10. Individual control book. Further to its previous comment on this point, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that arrangements will be made with the Ministry of Transport and Road Transport to obtain a specimen copy of the individual control book. It requests the Government to forward such a copy once it becomes available and also to provide more detailed information on the conditions of issue of the individual control book, its contents and the manner in which it must be kept by the drivers.

Part IV of the report form. Application in practice. The Committee notes that the Government has never supplied general information on the application of the Convention in practice. It therefore asks the Government to provide general information on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, including, for example, statistical information on the number of workers covered by the relevant legislation, extracts from reports of the labour inspection services showing the number and nature of infringements reported and sanctions imposed, etc.