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

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

Article 8, paragraph 3, of the Convention. The Committee notes that pursuant to section 4 of Revolutionary Council Order No. 606 of 1980, "(a)n employee who works on a day of weekly rest or on an official holiday shall be compensated with an alternative day of rest or with overtime wages in accordance with section 3(2) of this Order". Section 2 of Revolutionary Command Council Order No. 1119 of 1980, amended section 3(2) of Order No. 606 to provide that "(e)very hour of overtime work performed on a day of weekly rest or on an official holiday shall count as one-and-a-half-hours of ordinary work." The Committee wishes to call the Government's attention to the fact that, under Article 8, paragraph 3, of the Convention, compensatory rest for work performed on a day of weekly rest is compulsory regardless of any monetary compensation. It therefore hopes that the Government will take the necessary measures to bring the legislation into conformity with the Convention on this point.