Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14) - Uruguay (Ratification: 1933)

Article 5 of the Convention. Compensatory rest. The Committee notes that Act No. 7318 of 10 December 1920 provides for a weekly rest period of at least 24 hours in industrial undertakings. The Committee notes, however, that under section 8 of Act No. 7318 and section 4 of Decree No. 550/989 of 12 December 1989, any worker employed exceptionally on the weekly rest day has the right to choose either compensatory leave or cash compensation equivalent to double the worker’s wages. The Committee recalls that the Convention provides that compensatory rest must, as far as possible, be granted for any exceptions to the normal scheme of weekly rest. The Committee requests the Government to indicate how provision is made, as far as possible, for compensatory rest regardless of any monetary compensation offered when a worker in an industrial undertaking is employed on a weekly rest day.