Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 (No. 1) - Czechia (Ratification: 1993)

The Committee notes the Government's report on application of the Convention. It requests the Government to supply further information on the following matters.

Article 1 of the Convention. The Government is requested to indicate if effect has been given to section 85(a) of the Labour Code which provides that the competent authorities may, by regulations on labour, schedule the work time for employees in transportation and communications and for employees in customs administration. The Committee wishes to draw the Government's attention to the inclusion in Article 1(d) of transport of passengers or goods by road, rail, sea or inland waterway, in the industrial undertakings to which the Convention must apply.

Article 2. The Committee wishes to recall that this Article of the Convention prescribes that working hours shall not exceed eight in the day. Furthermore, Article 2(b) lays down that the daily limit of working hours shall not be exceeded by more than one hour where working time over the week is distributed unequally. The Government is requested to indicate the legislative provisions or other relevant measures which ensure compliance with these two restrictions.

Article 6. The Government is requested to indicate the legislative provisions or other relevant measures which ensure that employers' and workers' representative organizations are consulted in accordance with paragraph 2 of the Convention to determine cases in which derogation from the normal working hours are permitted. In this respect, the Committee wishes to recall that the only cases where temporary derogation is admitted are those allowing undertakings to cope with extraordinary workloads (Article 2, paragraph 1(b), of the Convention).

Articles 7 and 8. The Government is requested to submit the information required under these two Articles of the Convention.