Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

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

The Committee notes the Government's response to its previous comments and requests the Government to provide additional information in respect of the following points.

Article 2, paragraph 1 and Article 5 of the Convention. The Committee had previously recalled that under Article 2 of the Convention, the whole of the staff employed in any industrial undertaking, public or private, shall enjoy in every period of seven days a period of rest comprising at least 24 consecutive hours. The Committee had noted that section 3, paragraph 2(c) of the Labour Proclamation No. 42 of 1993 excludes all persons who hold managerial posts or who are engaged in major managerial functions in an enterprise from its scope of application. The Government indicates that granting weekly rest to this category of persons is a privilege resulting from tradition and prevailing practice. The Committee requests the Government to indicate, where necessary, the measures taken or envisaged to bring its legislation into conformity with the national practice as well as the provisions of Article 2, paragraph 1. Moreover, since the Government would consider that the exemption of this category of persons from the scope of Proclamation No. 42 gives effect to Article 4, the Committee requests the Government to transmit, in conformity with Article 5, more detailed information in respect of the prevailing customs in matters of compensatory periods of rest provided for suspensions or diminutions made.

Article 7(a). The Government is requested to provide examples of notices and rosters provided for under this Article.

Points III and V of the report form. The Government is requested to provide all available and relevant information in respect of the practical application of the Convention.