Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

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

Articles 4 and 5 of the Convention. Total or partial exceptions – Compensatory periods. The Committee notes that under sections 61(1) of the Factories Act and section 32(1) of the Oil Fields (Labour and Welfare) Act, where workers are deprived of any of their weekly holiday, they shall be allowed within the calendar month in which the rest periods were due to them, or within the two calendar months next after that month, substituted holidays equal to the number of holidays so lost. The Committee wishes to recall, in this respect, that, according to the spirit of the Convention, workers should enjoy a minimum period of rest and leisure at regular weekly, or, in any event, reasonably short, intervals. In this connection, it refers to Paragraph 3 of the Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Recommendation, 1957 (No. 103), which indicates that persons to whom special weekly rest schemes apply should not work for more than three weeks without receiving the rest periods to which they are entitled. The Committee therefore requests the Government to re-examine the appropriateness of granting accumulated weekly rest – even on an exceptional basis – once every three months and consider the possibility of amending the relevant provision of the Factories Act and the Oil Fields (Labour and Welfare) Act accordingly.