Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2002, published 91st ILC session (2003)

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

The Committee notes the Government’s statement in response to the Committee’s previous comments to the effect that there have been no changes in law or practice applying this Convention since the last report. It hopes that the next report will include full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

  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.

With reference to Article 1, paragraph 1(d), and Article 4 of the Convention, the Committee further requests the Government to provide any directives of the competent Minister determining the special application of the provisions of the Labour Proclamation No. 42 of 1993 on weekly rest to workers who are engaged in the transport of passengers and goods. Please also supply any collective agreements concluded to this effect.