R37 Recommendation concerning the Regulation of Hours of Work in Hotels, Restaurants and Similar Establishments




Geneva, 28 giugno 1930


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 hours of work in hotels, restaurants and similar establishments, 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 (Hotels, 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 subsequently the application of the rules laid down in the said Convention to as many classes of establishments as possible, including hotels, restaurants and similar establishments,

The Conference recommends:
1. That those Members in which no statutory regulation yet exists of the hours of work of persons employed in hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, clubs, cafés and similar establishments which are exclusively or mainly engaged in providing board and lodging or supplying refreshments for consumption on the premises, 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. 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. 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.


The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened in Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its 90th Session on 3 June 2002, and Following consideration of the proposal for the withdrawal of several international labour Recommendations, which is the seventh item on the agenda of this session, decides this day of June of the year two thousand and two to withdraw the Hours of Work (Hotels, etc.) Recommendation, 1930 (No. 37). The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members of the International Labour Organization, as well as the Secretary-General of the United Nations, of this decision to withdraw the instrument. The English and French versions of the text of this decision are equally authoritative.


La Raccomandazione è stata ritirata il 3 giugno 2002

Fonte: ILO