Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2003, published 92nd ILC session (2004)

Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14) - Finland (Ratification: 1923)

The Committee takes note of the Working Hours Act (605/1996), as amended by several Acts, including Act 112/2002.

Articles 2 and 5 of the Convention. The Committee notes that national collective agreements may deviate from the provisions made under sections 31 and 32 of the Working Hours Act on weekly rest and derogations from weekly rest (section 40). The Committee further notes that the Act on working hours on vessels in domestic traffic (No. 248/1982), as amended by Act No. 682/1995, also makes provision for exceptions from its provisions on weekly rest by collective agreements, whether concluded on the national level or between the employer and an employee organization. It requests the Government to indicate the measures to ensure that employees to whom the collective agreements are applicable enjoy in every period of seven days a period of rest comprising at least 24 consecutive hours or are entitled, as far as possible, to compensatory rest for any suspensions or diminutions made under exceptional circumstances.