Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 82nd ILC session (1995)

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

The Committee notes the Government's report, which does not reply to the Committee's comments made in 1993. The Committee must therefore repeat its previous request to the Government to provide detailed information, in its next report, on the following points:

1. Article 2, paragraph 1, and Article 5. The Committee notes that, by virtue of section 3(2)(c) of the Labour Proclamation No. 42 of 1993, persons holding managerial posts or directly engaged in major managerial functions are not covered in the scope of the application of the Proclamation. It would recall that Article 2 of the Convention provides that the whole of the staff employed in industrial undertakings should enjoy in every period of seven days a period of rest comprising at least 24 consecutive hours. The Government is requested to indicate any measures taken or envisaged to ensure that managers in industrial undertakings also have the right to a weekly rest of at least 24 hours. To the extent that managers in industrial undertakings are exempted from the regular weekly rest provisions by virtue of Article 4 of the Convention, the Government is requested to indicate any measures taken to provide, as far as possible, for compensatory periods of rest for this category of workers.

Article 7(a) of the Convention. The Government is requested to indicate, in its next report, any measures taken to ensure that weekly rest days are made known to workers by means of notices posted at the workplace or by other means to be determined by the Government. The Government is also requested to provide specimen copies of any such notices.

Points III and V of the report form. Please include with future reports available information on the practical application of the Convention.

The Government is asked to report in detail in 1996.