Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930 (No. 30) - Panama (Ratification: 1959)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its last report.

With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes, in particular, that the technical team of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, to which the Government referred in its previous report, is continuing to seek ways of bringing the legislation into harmony with the requirements of Article 7, paragraphs 2 and 3, of the Convention. It recalls that the Bill fixing the number of overtime hours in commerce and offices at a maximum of 250 per year was drawn up during direct contacts made in November 1977 by a representative of the Director-General of the ILO, because the possibility of working three overtime hours per day and nine per week, without any reasonable annual limitation (the 468 hours per year calculated by the Government being considered too high) was not considered as being in full conformity with Article 7, paragraphs 2 and 3.

The Committee once again hopes that the Government will be able to fix an annual limit for cases of temporary exceptions in the light of the above, and requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any developments in this connection.