Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2005, Publicación: 95ª reunión CIT (2006)

Convenio sobre el descanso semanal (industria), 1921 (núm. 14) - Bahrein (Ratificación : 1981)

The Committee notes the Government’s report and wishes to draw its attention to the following points.

Article 5 of the Convention. The Committee notes that, under section 80 of Decree No. 14 of 1993 revising the Labour Code of 1976, an employer may require a worker to work on his weekly day of rest provided that he is granted an additional sum equivalent to 150 per cent of his normal wage or a compensatory rest day. In its previous comments, the Committee drew the Government’s attention to the provisions of Article 5, which require that, as far as possible, compensatory periods of rest be granted. The Committee reminds the Government that such periods of rest are to be granted independently of any monetary compensation. It therefore requests that the Government indicate the measures taken or envisaged to give full effect to this Article.

Furthermore, the Committee notes that, under section 80 of the revised Labour Code, no worker is to be employed on his weekly day of rest on more than two consecutive occasions unless he gives his consent. The Committee requests that the Government provide further explanations regarding the practical application of this provision so as to avoid any situation that would run counter to the spirit in which the Convention was drawn up. In this regard, it reminds the Government that weekly rest periods must be considered as an elementary guarantee for safeguarding the health and well-being of workers and for protecting them from any risk of abuse.

Article 7. The Committee notes that, under article 101 of the Labour Code, any establishment employing ten or more workers is required to post, in a prominent place within its premises, copies of the work regulations and the regulations pertaining to disciplinary measures and their application. It is the Committee’s understanding that the posting of notices within the work premises detailing the organization of weekly rest forms part of the mandatory posting of work regulations and invites the Government to provide specimen copies of the notices and rosters specified in virtue of this Article of the Convention.