Observación (CEACR) - Adopción: 2008, Publicación: 98ª reunión CIT (2009)

Convenio sobre el descanso semanal (comercio y oficinas), 1957 (núm. 106) - Bulgaria (Ratificación : 1960)

Article 8, paragraph 3, of the Convention. Temporary exemptions and compensatory rest. The Committee notes with satisfaction that, under the Act published in Official Gazette No. 52-2004 and in force since 1 August 2004, section 150(2) of the Labour Code, which prohibited the compensation of overtime work by rest, has been repealed and a new paragraph 4 has been added to section 153 of the same Code, providing for supplementary payment of wages together with compensatory rest of 24 consecutive hours the following week for workers who perform overtime on the two weekly rest days.

Furthermore, the Committee raises other points in a direct request to the Government.