Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1957 (No. 106) - Saudi Arabia (Ratification: 1978)

Articles 7(2) and 8(3) of the Convention. Permanent and temporary exceptions – Compensatory rest. For several years, the Committee has been drawing the Government’s attention to the need to adopt measures to guarantee compensatory rest for those workers who are required to perform work – either regularly or occasionally – on their weekly rest day. Although the Government had previously indicated that the new labour legislation would give full effect to these requirements of the Convention and would ensure the granting of compensatory rest, the Committee notes that the Labour Law of 2005 contains no relevant provision. The Committee is therefore bound to once again request the Government to take the necessary measures to ensure that workers who are called upon to perform work on their day of weekly rest are granted in all cases a compensatory period of rest of a total duration of 24 hours, as prescribed by these Articles of the Convention.