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

Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175) - Hungary (Ratification: 2010)

Articles 9 and 10 of the Convention. Measures to facilitate access to part-time work and to ensure voluntary transfer from full-time to part-time work. The Committee notes the Government’s reference to Act CXXIII of 2004 on assistance to career starters, people above 50 years of age and people who seek employment following nursing a family member, which aims at promoting and facilitating part-time work, for instance by proposing tax allowances to employers in respect of employees returning from pregnancy allowance, nursing allowance or child-care allowance provided that they continue to employ the person hired as a replacement and the returning employee on a job sharing basis (20–20 hours a week). The Government also refers to Government Decree 70/2009 (IV.2) on the support of part-time work, which gives incentives to employers willing to employ career starters for at least four hours a day for a period of at least 365 days. Furthermore, the Government indicates that under section 23B(1) of Act XXXIII 1992, as last amended in 2012, on the legal status of civil servants, and section 61(3) of the Labour Code, an employer is obliged to alter the employment contract from full-time to part-time at the request of an employee returning to work from unpaid leave granted for childcare purposes until the child completes the age of three years. The Committee requests the Government to provide additional information on any programmes aimed at promoting part-time work or other measures designed to facilitate access to part-time work, account being taken of the needs and preferences of groups such as the unemployed, workers with family responsibilities, older workers, and workers with disabilities. The Committee also requests the Government to provide statistical indications, if available, on transition to and from part-time employment and any emerging trends concerning involuntary part-time jobs as a result of the financial crisis and high unemployment rate.