Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2025, published 114th ILC session (2026)

Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1957 (No. 106) - Jordan (Ratification: 1979)

Articles 7(1) and (2) and 8(1) and (3) of the Convention. Circumstances for permanent and temporary exemptions. Compensatory rest. Further to its previous comments regarding the circumstances for exceptions to the weekly rest principle and the compensation for work during weekly rest, the Committee notes with regret that the Government in its report merely reiterates the content of the various provisions of the Labour Law of 1996 relating to weekly rest, without referring to any action aiming at giving full effect to the requirements of the Convention. In this respect, the Committee recalls that: (i) section 60(b) of the Labour Law, which provides that with the employer’s consent workers may accumulate their weekly holidays and take them within a period not exceeding one month, does not specify the conditions under which these exceptions to the weekly rest principle are authorized, as required by Articles 7(1) and 8(1) of the Convention; and (ii) section 59(b) – which provides that if workers work on their weekly day off or on religious holidays or official holidays, they shall receive additional compensation for that day of not less than 150 per cent of their regular wage for the work performed – does not contain any indication on the compensatory rest granted to workers who work during their weekly rest day, as required by Articles 7(2) and 8(3) of the Convention. The Committee emphasizes the importance of: (i) keeping recourse to exemptions from the general 24-hour weekly rest rule to what is strictly necessary, and for such exemptions to be authorized under clearly specified conditions; and (ii) ensuring insofar as possible that provision is made for the compensatory rest due to persons called upon to work on a weekly rest day, independently from any financial compensation, as such weekly rest is justified by the need to protect the health and well-being of workers (2018 General Survey on working time, paras 242 and 260). The Committee requests the Government to take the necessary measures, including through amendment of the relevant provisions of the Labour Law, to ensure that all the provisions of the Convention are fully applied both in law and in practice as indicated above.