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

Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14) - Serbia (Ratification: 2000)

The Committee notes with interest the information provided by the Government in its report concerning the application of the Convention in the Republic of Serbia, in particular the new Labour Code of the Republic of Serbia, adopted on 15 March 2005. It notes that the report does not contain information on the application of the Convention in the Republic of Montenegro. It therefore requests the Government to also provide full information on the application of the Convention in the Republic of Montenegro for examination by the Committee at its next session.

Article 4 of the Convention. The Committee notes that under the terms of section 67(4) of the new Labour Code of the Republic of Serbia, should an employee be called upon to work on a weekly rest day, the employer must give him or her a rest day of at least 24 consecutive hours during the following week. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the manner in which it ensures that the proper humanitarian and economic considerations are taken into account in the case of such exceptions, as required by this Article of the Convention.

Article 7. The Committee points out to the Government that, according to the provisions of this Article, each employer is obliged, where weekly rest is given to the whole of the staff collectively, to make known such days and hours of collective rest by means of notices posted conspicuously in the establishment and, where the rest period is not granted to the whole of the staff collectively, by means of a roster including the weekly days of rest. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the manner in which this provision of the Convention is given effect.

The Committee reminds the Government that it must provide its comments on the subject of the observations made by the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) dated 6 January 2004.