Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1957 (No. 106) - Iraq (Ratification: 1960)

Articles 8 and 11 of the Convention. Compensatory rest. List of exemptions. The Committee has been drawing the Government’s attention to section 61 of the Labour Code of 1987 which provides that workers performing work on the weekly rest day are entitled to either a 100 per cent wage supplement or a compensatory rest day whereas Article 8(3) of the Convention requires compensatory rest to be granted in all cases of temporary exemptions to the weekly rest period, irrespective of any financial compensation. The Committee notes, in this connection, that section 64(1) of the draft new Labour Code, as it reads in the text that was communicated to the Office in July 2010, is fully consistent with this requirement of the Convention by providing that workers working on the weekly rest day receive extra pay in accordance with rules on overtime and are also granted a compensatory day off in the following week. Noting the Government’s indication that the draft new Labour Code is now before the Parliament for examination and adoption, the Committee once again expresses the hope that this provision will be adopted without modification and requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any progress in the process of adoption of the new Labour Code. It also requests the Government to provide with its next report, as prescribed by Article 11 of the Convention, a list of the categories of persons and the types of establishments permanently exempted from the normal weekly rest regime and accordingly subject to special weekly rest schemes as provided for in Article 7 of the Convention.