R039 - Hours of Work (Hospitals, etc.) Recommendation, 1930

 Adoption: Geneva, 14th ILC session (28 Jun 1930)

[Withdrawn instrument - By decision of the International Labour Conference at its 90th Session (2002)]

Preamble

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 Fourteenth Session on 10 June 1930, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the regulation of hours of work in establishments for the treatment or the care of the sick, infirm, destitute or mentally unfit, which is included in the second item on the agenda of the Session, and

Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation,

adopts this twenty-eighth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred thirty, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Hours of Work (Hospitals, etc.) Recommendation, 1930, to be submitted to the Members of the International Labour Organisation for consideration, with a view to effect being given to it by national legislation or otherwise in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation:

Having adopted a Convention concerning the regulation of hours of work in commerce and offices, and

Wishing to extend such regulations to as many classes of establishments as possible, including establishments for the treatment or the care of the sick, infirm, destitute or mentally unfit,

The Conference recommends:

1. 1. That those Members in which no statutory regulations yet exist on the hours of work of persons employed in establishments for the treatment or the care of the sick, infirm, destitute or mentally unfit, should make special investigations into the conditions obtaining in these establishments, in the light of the rules laid down in the above-mentioned Convention;
2. 2. That those Members in which statutory regulation of the hours of work of the said persons already exists should make special investigations into the application of the regulations, in the light of the rules laid down in the Convention in question; and
3. 3. That in both cases the Members should, within four years of the adoption of this Recommendation, communicate to the International Labour Office, on a uniform plan to be approved by the Governing Body, full information as to the results of the investigations, so that a special report may be prepared by the Office as a basis for considering the desirability of placing the question of the hours of work of persons employed in the establishments concerned on the agenda of a subsequent session of the Conference, with a view to the adoption of a Convention.