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

Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 (No. 1) - Bangladesh (Ratification: 1972)

Other comments on C001

Direct Request

2013
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Articles 2, 3, 5 and 6 of the Convention. Authorized exceptions to limits on normal daily and weekly hours of work. In its previous comment, the Committee noted that sections 100 and 102(2) of the Labour Act authorize exceptions to the limits of normal daily and weekly hours of work on grounds that go beyond those contemplated in the Convention, such as, for instance, the Government’s discretionary power to grant exemptions to certain industries for a period of six months for reasons of public interest or the promotion of economic development. In the absence of the Government’s reply on this point, the Committee once again recalls that derogations from the ordinary eight-hour working day and 48-hour working week are only permitted under well-defined conditions laid out in the Convention, in particular Article 2 (averaging of hours of work in the case of shift work), Article 3 (unforeseen work in case of accident, urgent repair work, force majeure), Article 5 (averaging of hours of work over a period longer than a week), Article 6(1)(a) (permanent exceptions in the case of preparatory or intermittent work), and Article 6(1)(b) (temporary exceptions in exceptional cases of pressure of work). The Committee therefore requests the Government to indicate the measures it intends to take in order to ensure that derogations from the general working hour limits are authorized only under the limited conditions prescribed by the above-referenced Articles of the Convention.