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

Slovenia

Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14) (Ratification: 1992)
Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1957 (No. 106) (Ratification: 1992)

In order to provide a comprehensive view of the issues relating to the application of the ratified Conventions on working time, the Committee considers it appropriate to examine Conventions Nos 14 (weekly rest (industry)) and 106 (weekly rest (commerce and offices)) together.

Article 4 of Convention No. 14 and Article 7 of Convention No. 106. Special weekly rest schemes. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the Government’s indication in its report that there have been no legislative changes with respect to section 158(2) of the Employment Relationships Act, which allows for the accumulation of the weekly rest entitlement over a maximum period of six months in the case of shift work or in anticipation of a certain amount of irregular work or additional workload. The Committee recalls that, in accordance with the objective of the Conventions, workers who may be subject to special weekly rest schemes should not be deprived for unreasonably long periods (no more than three weeks, according to Paragraph 3 of the Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Recommendation, 1957 (No. 103)) of the weekly rest periods to which they are entitled, as it is commonly accepted that a minimum of rest and leisure every week is essential for workers’ health and well-being (2018 General Survey on working-time instruments, paragraphs 249 and 252). The Committee requests the Government to take the necessary measures to bring section 158(2) of the Employment Relationships Act in conformity with the Conventions, and to ensure that in practice all workers are granted compensatory rest of at least 24 hours in cases where they are required for whatever reason to perform work on the weekly rest day.