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The right to rest and leisure is the economic, social and cultural right to adequate time away from work and other societal responsibilities. It is linked to the right to work and historical movements for legal limitations on working hours.
Article 7 (d) refers to the right of people in paid employment to “rest, leisure and reasonable limitation of working hours”. Its focus is, therefore, on the amount of paid working time for employed workers to secure a living wage (the latter right being set out in Article 7a).
Article 24: Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. Even in the 19th century, there was recognition that working excessive hours posed a danger to workers' health and to their families.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. Article 25
1. Everyone, whether adult or child, has the right to adequate time for rest and for the pursuit of leisure activity. 2. For those engaged in remunerated work, Article 1 requires recognition of the right to reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay, as well as remuneration for public holidays.
Right to leisure and rest Each work day should not be too long and everyone has the right to rest and take regular paid holidays. Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Assess the place of leisure rights in individual national human rights arrangements, including national constitutions and human rights legislation and institutions. For nations which have not ratified the ICESCR: examine reasons for non-ratification and leisure implications.
