Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930 (No. 30) - Iraq (Ratification: 1962)

Article 7(3) of the Convention. Limits on total number of authorized overtime hours. The Committee has been drawing the Government’s attention to section 63(2)(c) of the Labour Code of 1987 which provides for the possibility of working up to four additional hours per day in non-industrial activities, without specifying however an annual limit on the maximum number of additional hours. The Committee notes, however, that section 65(5)(e) of the draft new Labour Code, as it reads in the text transmitted to the Office in July 2010, introduces for the first time such a limit and provides that no worker may be employed for more than 40 hours of overtime in any 90-day period, and no more than 120 hours of overtime in any 12-month period. Noting the Government’s indication that the draft new Labour Code is now before the parliament for examination and adoption, the Committee hopes that this provision will be adopted without modification and requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any progress in the process of adoption of the new Labour Code.