Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Hours of Work and Rest Periods (Road Transport) Convention, 1979 (No. 153) - Ecuador (Ratification: 1988)

The Committee notes the Government's report and the elements of information provided in reply to its previous comments. The Government states that it is currently giving priority to the reconstruction of the national road infrastructure destroyed during the climatic phenomenon El Niño. It has therefore deferred the adoption of the necessary measures to give effect to the provisions of the Convention until the completion of this reconstruction phase.

The Committee hopes that the Government will, once this phase of reconstruction is completed, be able to envisage the manner in which it can give effect to all the provisions of the Convention, and particularly the formulation of legislation on national and international land transport with the technical assistance that it has requested from the ILO. In these conditions, the Committee hopes that the Government will be able in the near future to provide the information that has been requested for many years on the manner in which the Convention is applied in both national law and practice.

The Committee also requests the Government to provide its comments at the same time, in so far as it considers it appropriate, in reply to the observations made by the Ecuadorean Central Organization of Class Organizations respecting the absence of mechanisms to monitor the application of the Convention.