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

Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930 (No. 30) - Guatemala (Ratification: 1961)

Articles 2 and 6 of the Convention. Exceeding normal hours of work – Overtime. The Committee notes the observations made by the Indigenous and Rural Workers’ Trade Union Movement of Guatemala (MSICG) in a communication received on 10 September 2012 and transmitted to the Government on 28 September 2012. The MSICG’s allegations specifically concern: the excessive working hours imposed on the staff of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Children and Young People following the introduction of a missing child warning system; working time regulations pertaining to the employees of the Guatemalan Social Security Institute and the Institute of Public Criminal Defence; and the obligation on employees in some municipalities to do unpaid overtime for work of a political nature for the mayors of these communities. The Committee requests the Government to provide any comments it may wish to make in reply to the observations of the MSICG.