Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2019, published 109th ILC session (2021)

Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14) - Anguilla

Articles 2 and 4 of the Convention. Weekly rest entitlement. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its report, in particular on the relevant provisions of the new Labour (Relations) Act of 2018 (2018 LRA) implementing the Convention, as well as the Public Holidays Act which provides that Sunday is observed as a common law holiday in Anguilla. The Committee notes that section 30(2) of the 2018 LRA provides that employers shall permit their employees to enjoy in every period of seven consecutive days, a period of rest comprising at least 24 consecutive hours or an employer shall not employ a person in excess of 12 hours in a period of 24 hours, or in excess of 72 hours in a period of 168 hours. The Committee notes that by providing an alternative between the obligation to ensure a period of rest comprising at least 24 consecutive hours in every period of seven consecutive days and other working time arrangements based on limits to hours of work, this provision allows possible permanent exceptions to the principle set in the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the manner in which section 30(2) of the 2018 LRA is applied in practice, particularly on the cases in which employers have used the alternatives provided for in that section instead of granting a period of rest comprising at least 24 consecutive hours in every period of seven consecutive days.