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C14 Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 .
Convention:C14
Place:Geneva
Session of the Conference:3
Date of adoption:17:11:1921
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The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office,
and having met in its Third Session on 25 October 1921, and Having decided upon the
adoption of certain proposals with regard to the weekly rest day in industrial employment, which is included in the seventh item of the agenda of the Session, and Having
determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention,
adopts the following Convention, which may be cited as the Weekly Rest (Industry)
Convention, 1921, for ratification by the Members of the International Labour Organisation
in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the International Labour
Organisation:
Article 1
1. For the purpose of this Convention, the term industrial undertaking includes--
(a) mines, quarries, and other works for the extraction of minerals from the earth;
(b) industries in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which materials are transformed;
including shipbuilding and the generation, transformation and transmission of electricity
or motive power of any kind; (c) construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, alteration, or demolition of any building, railway, tramway, harbour, dock,
pier, canal, inland waterway, road, tunnel, bridge, viaduct, sewer, drain, well,
telegraphic or telephonic installation, electrical undertaking, gas work, water work,
or other work of construction, as well as the preparation for or laying the foundations
of any such work or structure; (d) transport of passengers or goods by road, rail,
or inland waterway, including the handling of goods at docks, quays, wharves or warehouses, but excluding transport by hand. 2. This definition shall be subject to the special
national exceptions contained in the Washington Convention limiting the hours of
work in industrial undertakings to eight in the day and forty-eight in the week,
so far as such exceptions are applicable to the present Convention. 3. Where necessary,
in addition to the above enumeration, each Member may define the line of division
which separates industry from commerce and agriculture.
Article 2
1. The whole of the staff employed in any industrial undertaking, public or private,
or in any branch thereof shall, except as otherwise provided for by the following
Articles, enjoy in every period of seven days a period of rest comprising at least
twenty-four consecutive hours. 2. This period of rest shall, wherever possible, be granted
simultaneously to the whole of the staff of each undertaking. 3. It shall, wherever
possible, be fixed so as to coincide with the days already established by the traditions or customs of the country or district.
Article 3
Each Member may except from the application of the provisions of Article 2 persons
employed in industrial undertakings in which only the members of one single family
are employed.
Article 4
1. Each Member may authorise total or partial exceptions (including suspensions or
diminutions) from the provisions of Article 2, special regard being had to all proper
humanitarian and economic considerations and after consultation with responsible
associations of employers and workers, wherever such exist.
2. Such consultation shall not be necessary in the case of exceptions which have already
been made under existing legislation.
Article 5
Each Member shall make, as far as possible, provision for compensatory periods of
rest for the suspensions or diminutions made in virtue of Article 4, except in cases
where agreements or customs already provide for such periods.
Article 6
1. Each Member will draw up a list of the exceptions made under Articles 3 and 4 of
this Convention and will communicate it to the International Labour Office, and thereafter
in every second year any modifications of this list which shall have been made.
2. The International Labour Office will present a report on this subject to the General
Conference of the International Labour Organisation.
Article 7
In order to facilitate the application of the provisions of this Convention, each
employer, director, or manager, shall be obliged-- (a) where the 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 or any other convenient
place, or in any other manner approved by the Government; (b) where the rest period
is not granted to the whole of the staff collectively, to make known, by means of a roster drawn up in accordance with the method approved by the legislation of the
country, or by a regulation of the competent authority, the workers or employees
subject to a special system of rest, and to indicate that system.
Article 8
The formal ratifications of this Convention, under the conditions set forth in the
Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, shall be communicated to the
Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Article 9
1. This Convention shall come into force at the date on which the ratifications of
two Members of the International Labour Organisation have been registered by the
Director-General.
2. It shall be binding only upon those Members whose ratifications have been registered
with the International Labour Office.
3. Thereafter, the Convention shall come into force for any member at the date on
which its ratification has been registered with the International Labour Office.
Article 10
As soon as the ratifications of two Members of the International Labour Organisation
have been registered with the International Labour Office, the Director-General of
the International Labour Office shall so notify all the Members of the International
Labour Organisation. He shall likewise notify them of the registration of the ratifications
which may be communicated subsequently by other Members of the Organisation.
Article 11
Each Member which ratifies this Convention agrees to bring the provisions of Articles
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 into operation not later than 1 January 1924 and to take such
action as may be necessary to make these provisions effective.
Article 12
Each Member of the International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention
engages to apply it to its colonies, possessions and protectorates, in accordance
with the provisions of Article 35 of the Constitution of the International Labour
Organisation.
Article 13
A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after the expiration of
ten years from the date on which the Convention first comes into force, by an act
communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Such denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the date on which it
is registered with the International Labour Office.
Article 14
At least once in ten years, the Governing Body of the International Labour Office
shall present to the General Conference a report on the working of this Convention
and shall consider the desirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the
question of its revision or modification.
Article 15
The French and English texts of this Convention shall both be authentic.
Cross references Constitution: 35:article 35 of the Constitution of the International
Labour Organisation CONVENTIONS:1:Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919
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