Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

Forty-Hour Week Convention, 1935 (No. 47) - Russian Federation (Ratification: 1956)

The Committee notes the adoption of the new Labour Code of 2002, which continues to give effect to the principle of the 40-hour week in its section 91. Under section 98, however, the new Labour Code allows work to be carried out beyond the set norm of 40 hours per week. Upon a request from an employee, an employer is permitted to allow an employee working on another labour agreement within the same organization on a different position, specialty or profession, to work beyond the normal length of working time (internal combination of jobs). Allowing employers to employ one person under two different contracts to work beyond 40 hours undermines the principle contained in the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to review this provision to bring it in line with all other measures to facilitate the application of a 40-hour week.

It requests the Government to provide general information in its next report on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice and to communicate the information called for under Part V of the report form.

The Committee also requests the Government to indicate the representative organizations of employers and workers to which copies of the present report have been communicated as required in accordance with article 23, paragraph 2, of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization.