Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930 (No. 30) - Iraq (Ratification: 1962)

Article 7(3) of the Convention. Limits on total number of authorized overtime hours. Further to its previous comment, the Committee notes the Government’s statement that the issue of limits of authorized overtime hours will be submitted to the House of Representatives, with the aim to maintain section 65(5)(e) of the draft Labour Code, which gives effect to this Article of the Convention. In this connection, the Committee understands that on 4 January 2014, new discussions have been initiated before the Parliament in order to adopt the new Labour Code and that they are still pending. It also understands that a new section has been introduced, which provides that no worker may be employed for more than 40 hours of overtime in any 90-day period, and no more than 120 hours of overtime in any 12-month period. The Committee hopes that this provision will be adopted without modification and requests the Government to continue to provide information on any progress in the process of adoption of the new Labour Code.