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

Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14) - Benin (Ratification: 1960)

Articles 5 and 7 of the Convention. Compensatory rest – Posting of notices. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes the Government’s statement that the Labour Code and its enabling texts are undergoing review by the National Assembly and that the requirements set in Article 7 of the Convention concerning the posting of notices at places of work showing days and hours of weekly rest will be taken into account during the review. The Committee points out that Article 7 of the Convention seeks not only to inform workers of the weekly rest arrangements applying to them, but also to facilitate supervision of the application of such arrangements, and requests the Government to keep the Office informed of all progress made in revising the Labour Code and to send a copy of the new text once it has been adopted. Furthermore, in the interests of certainty in law, the Committee requests the Government to provide expressly, in the revised text, that the compensation provided for in section 3(4) of Order No. 035/MFPTRA/DC/SGM/DT/SRT of 24 June 1998, setting out arrangements for the application of weekly rest where work is performed on the day of weekly rest, takes the form of compensatory rest and not monetary compensation.