Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930 (No. 30) - Paraguay (Ratification: 1966)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee wishes to draw the Government’s attention to the fact that it considers that the work of a special nature or requiring continuous performance, mentioned in section 211 of the Labour Code (Act No. 213 of 29 October 1993), should include not only the cases of supplementary work provided in sections 202 and 203 of the Code, but also cases for which exceptions to the normal working duration is allowed for preparatory or supplementary work for persons whose work is intermittent or for certain establishments where the nature of the work or the size of the population render inapplicable the normal working hours. For the abovementioned cases which are set out in Article 7 of the Convention, Article 8 provides that the public authorities shall issue regulations after consultation with the representative employers’ and workers’ organizations, special regard being paid to any existing collective agreements. In these circumstances, the Committee considers that consultation of occupational organizations, as above, should be provided for in section 211 of the Labour Code. It requests the Government to indicate in its next report the measures taken or envisaged in this regard and to describe the manner in which effect is given to section 211 in practice.