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Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175) - Albania (RATIFICATION: 2003)

Article 11 of the Convention. Implementing legislation. The Committee recalls its previous comment in which it raised a number of points regarding the implementation of the following requirements of the Convention: (i) measures taken to ensure that part-time workers receive the same protection as full-time workers in respect of freedom of association, occupational safety and health and non-discrimination (Article 4); (ii) measures to ensure that part-time workers irrespective of the weekly number of hours performed are entitled to employment injury benefits (Article 8(1)); (iii) not unduly large percentage of part-time workers excluded from the social security system and consultations with the social partners concerning the relevant threshold (Article 8(2), (3) and (4)); (iv) measures to promote part-time work and to address the needs of such groups such as the unemployed and disabled workers (Articles 9, 10); (v) application of the Convention through collective agreements (Article 11). In the absence of concrete replies, the Committee requests the Government to provide detailed information on the laws or regulations, collective agreements or other measures giving effect to the above-referenced provisions of the Convention.

Part V of the report form. Practical application. The Committee notes the statistical information provided by the Government according to which 67 per cent of part-time workers are female workers, 36 per cent are not declared in an Employment Office and 31 per cent work without an individual contract with most part-time workers being recorded in the finance and insurance sector. The Committee requests the Government to continue to collect and communicate detailed statistics on the number of part-time workers, if possible, broken down by gender and type of economic activity, as well as inspection results showing any infringements of the relevant legislation and copies of official publications or studies relating to part-time employment issues.

Finally, the Committee draws the Government’s attention to the conclusions of the ILO Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Working-Time Arrangements, held in October 2011, according to which the provisions of existing ILO standards relating to daily and weekly hours of work, weekly rest, paid annual leave, part-time and night work, remain relevant in the 21st century, and should be promoted in order to facilitate decent work. The Experts also emphasized the importance of working time, its regulation, and organization and management, to: (a) workers and their health and well-being, including opportunities for balancing working and non-work time; (b) the productivity and competitiveness of enterprises; and (c) effective responses to economic and labour market crises.