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

Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175) - Guyana (Ratification: 1997)

The Committee notes 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:

Repetition

Articles 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the Convention. Protection of part-time workers. The Committee notes that the Government’s concise report does not address the specific points on which the Committee has been commenting for a number of years. The Committee accordingly asks the Government to provide detailed information on the manner in which the following requirements of the Convention are given effect in law and practice: (i) legislative provisions or other measures to ensure that the basic wage of part-time workers is not lower than that of comparable full-time workers calculated according to the same method (Article 5); (ii) social security coverage of part-time workers and conditions for any exclusions of part-time workers from the scope of the National Insurance Scheme (Articles 6 and 8); (iii) measures to ensure that part-time workers receive conditions equivalent to those of comparable full-time workers in the fields of maternity protection (other than maternity leave) and sick leave (Article 7(a) and (d)). The Committee also requests the Government to provide up-to-date information on policies and programmes aimed at facilitating access to part-time employment and transmit copies of any laws, regulations or collective agreements implementing the provisions of the Convention which may not have been communicated previously to the Office.