Incident Tag: Excessive Work Hours

Work hours exceeding the limit of 48 hours/week. The ILO Hours of Work (Industry) Convention (No. 1) of 1919 introduced a maximum standard working time of 48 hours per week and eight hours per day as an international norm. In several exceptional cases, working time is allowed to exceed these limits, as long as daily working time remains not higher than ten hours, and weekly working time not higher than 56 hours. “The ILO conventions that address working hours have established a maximum of 48 hours per week plus 12 hours of overtime and this can only be applied on a sometime basis.” Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 (No. 1) Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930 (No. 30) These two Conventions set the general standard at 48 regular hours of work per week, with a maximum of 8 hours per day. Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14) Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1957 (No. 106) Set the general standard that workers shall enjoy a rest period of at least 24 consecutive hours every 7 days. Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970 (No. 132) Every person to whom the Convention applies shall enjoy at least three working weeks of annual paid holiday for one year of service. Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175) Requires ratifying states to ensure that part-time workers receive the same protection, basic wage and social security, as well as employment conditions equivalent to those accorded to comparable full-time workers.