Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14) - Ethiopia (Ratification: 1991)

The Committee notes with interest the information provided in the Government's first report and the adoption of the Labour Proclamation No. 42 of 1993. The Government is requested to provide additional information, in its next report, on the following points:

1. Article 2, paragraph 1, and Article 5. The Committee notes that, by virtue of section 3(2)(c) of the Labour Proclamation No. 42 of 1993, persons holding managerial posts or directly engaged in major managerial functions are not covered in the scope of the application of the Proclamation. It would recall that Article 2 of the Convention provides that the whole of the staff employed in industrial undertakings should enjoy in every period of seven days a period of rest comprising at least 24 consecutive hours. The Government is requested to indicate any measures taken or envisaged to ensure that managers in industrial undertakings also have the right to a weekly rest of at least 24 hours. To the extent that managers in industrial undertakings are exempted from the regular weekly rest provisions by virtue of Article 4 of the Convention, the Government is requested to indicate any measures taken to provide, as far as possible, for compensatory periods of rest for this category of workers.

Article 7(a) of the Convention. The Government is requested to indicate, in its next report, any measures taken to ensure that weekly rest days are made known to workers by means of notices posted at the workplace or by other means to be determined by the Government. The Government is also requested to provide specimen copies of any such notices.

Points III and V of the report form. Please include with future reports available information on the practical application of the Convention.