Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Forty-Hour Week Convention, 1935 (No. 47) - Sweden (Ratification: 1982)

Article 1 of the Convention. The principle of the 40-hour week. The Committee notes that while section 5 of the Working Hours Act sets normal working hours at 40 hours per week, sections 8 and 8a of the same Act allow overtime beyond the statutory limit (up to 350 hours during a calendar year). Considering that these provisions authorize practices that would possibly lead to unreasonably long hours of work, in contradiction to the principle of progressive reduction of hours of work, the Committee requests the Government to provide information on the measures adopted or envisaged to ensure that the application in practice of such provisions do not contradict the principle of a 40-hour week. Specifically, the Committee requests the Government to indicate the total numbers of daily and weekly hours (normal hours plus overtime) that workers in different sectors effectively work.