";s:4:"text";s:3506:" These instruments ensure high productivity while safeguarding workers' physical and mental health. These instruments ensure high productivity while safeguarding workers' physical and mental health. The competent authority shall establish the format of the records of the seafarers' hours of work or of their hours of rest taking into account any available International Labour Organization guidelines or shall use any standard format prepared by the Organization. Latest issues International Labour Organization Today, ILO standards on working time provide the framework for regulated hours of work, daily and weekly rest periods, and annual holidays.
The very first ILO Convention, adopted in 1919 (see below), limited hours of work and provided for adequate rest periods for workers. Actual hours worked include regular work hours of full-time, part-time and part-year workers, paid and unpaid overtime, hours worked in additional jobs, and exclude time not worked because of public holidays, annual paid leave, own illness, injury and temporary disability, maternity leave, parental leave, schooling or training, slack work for technical or economic reasons, strike or labour dispute, bad weather… Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACTEMP)There are signs that work-related violence and harassment has increased during the COVID-19 crisis.
Standards on part-time work have become increasingly important instruments for addressing such issues as job creation and promoting equality between men and women.