
ILO Helpdesk: Tools and resources for business on working time
22 April 2024
Practical resources and tools
- Practical Guide on Teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
- Guide to developing balanced working time arrangements
- Working Conditions Laws Database
- Working Time Around the World (2007 study)
- Working time: Its impact on safety and health (2003), by A. Spurgeon.
- Decent Working Time – Balancing workers' needs with business requirements
Normative sources
- Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 (No. 1)
- Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930 (No. 30)
- Forty-Hour Week Convention, 1935 (No. 47)
- Reduction of Hours of Work Recommendation, 1962 (No. 116)
- Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14)
- Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1957 (No.106)
- Holiday with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970 (No. 132)
- Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171)
- Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No.175)
- Workers with Family Responsibilities Recommendation, 1981
- Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration) - 5th Edition (March 2017)
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