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

Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14) - British Virgin Islands

Article 5 of the Convention. Total or partial exceptions – Compensatory rest. Further to its previous comment, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that, as a matter of practice, when employees are asked to work during their rest periods, they are compensated with either overtime pay or a compensatory rest day. The Committee notes, however, that as it currently reads, section 49(1) of the Labour Code provides only for monetary compensation at one and a half times the regular rate. The Committee accordingly requests the Government to consider measures to align the national legislation with what appears to be established practice, and ensure that compensatory rest is granted, as far as possible, in all cases of authorized exceptions to the basic 24-hour weekly rest rule, irrespective of any monetary compensation.