No adult worker shall ordinarily be required or allowed to work in an establishment for more than 8 hours in any day.
Labour Act 2006 - Unofficial English Translation by Dhar §100
General limit
No adult worker shall ordinarily be required or allowed to work in an establishment for more than 48 hours in any week.
Labour Act 2006 - Unofficial English Translation by Dhar §102(1)
Duration
All workers except tea plantation workers are entitled to 10 days of paid casual leave in each calendar year.
An adult worker is entitled to: (a) for shop, commercial or industrial establishment, factory, or road transport service industry workers - one day’s paid annual leave per 18 days of work; (b) for tea plantation workers - one day’s paid annual leave per 22 days of work; and (c) for newspaper workers - one day’s paid annual leave per 11 days of work.
A period of leave shall be inclusive of any holiday which may occur during such period.
Labour Act 2006 - Unofficial English Translation by BEF §§115, 117(1), (3)
Payment
Annual leave is to be leave with wages. Casual leave is leave with full wages.
Labour Act 2006 - Unofficial English Translation by BEF §119
Amount
Leave and holidays allowed under the Labour Act 2006 are to be paid at the rate equal to the daily average of the worker’s full time wages including dearness allowance and ad-hoc or interim pay (if any) for the days on which he worked during the month immediately preceding the leave, but excluding any overtime allowance and bonus. If a worker is entitled to cash equivalent of any advantage accruing from the supply of food grains, it shall be included his wages for the period of leave.
Labour Act 2006 - Unofficial English Translation by BEF §119(1)
Remarks: It is not clear whether §119 applies to casual leave as well as annual leave. The uncertainty arises from a difference between the substantive leave entitlement provisions, i.e. §117 which provides for annual leave with wages and §115 which provides for casual leave with full wages. While the term 'wages' is defined in §2(45), the term 'full wages' is not defined, but may be intended to represent the difference between 'wages' (as defined) and the leave payment entitlement (as per §119).
The term 'wages' is defined in §2(45) to mean all remuneration, expressed or capable of being expressed in money terms, payable to a worker pursuant to the terms of his employment in respect of work done, but does not include: the value of house accommodation or other amenities or services excluded by the Government; any contribution paid by the employer to any pension fund or provident fund; any traveling allowance or concession; and any sum paid to the worker to defray special entitled on him by the nature of his employment.
Date of payment
Payment is to be made, so far as it is practicable, before the period of leave begins where the period is of: (a) in the case of an adult worker - 4 or more days; (b) in the case of an adolescent worker - 5 or more days.
Labour Act 2006 - Unofficial English Translation by BEF §119(2)
Barbados - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
11 October 2011
General limit
General provisions have not been identified. However, we take the conditions of employment for shop assistants as the de facto conditions for other categories of workers.
No shop assistant shall be employed in a shop on any day for more than 8 hours in the aggregate to run continuously from the time he commences work, excluding intervals for meals.
§6(2)
General limit
General provisions have not been identified. However, we take the conditions of employment for shop assistants as the de facto conditions for other categories of workers.
The number of hours in any 1 week, excluding intervals for meals, during which a shop assistant may remain or may be employed in a shop shall not exceed 40.
Shops Act §6(1)
Duration
General
An employee who completes a year of employment with an employer is entitled to - (a) an annual holiday of not less than 3 weeks where he has been in the employment of that employer for less than 5 years; and (b) an annual holiday of not less than 4 weeks where he has been in the service of that employer for 5 years or more.
Holidays with Pay Act §3(3)
Payment
Amount
Every employee who takes an annual holiday shall be paid by his employer his average pay in respect of the period of 12 months to which such annual holiday relates.
Holidays with Pay Act §4(1)
Date of payment
Where the employee takes his annual holiday in one period, the average pay shall be paid to him not later than the day immediately preceding the commencement of such annual holiday.
Where the employee takes his annual holiday in 2 periods, a proportionate part of the average pay shall be paid to him in respect of each period later than the day immediately preceding the commencement of each of the 2 periods.
Holidays with Pay Act §4(2),§4(3)
Belgium - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
17 September 2012
Remarks: The website of the Belgium Public Federal Service of Justice provides a very completed legal database in French and Dutch. http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/loi/loi.htm
The website of the National Labour Council of Belgium provides the whole text of all Collective Agreements concluded within this Council. http://www.cnt-nar.be/Cct-liste.htm
The website of the Belgian Federal Public Service Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue provides detailed information concerning Belgium Labour Regulations, among other issues, on working time. http://www.emploi.belgique.be/defaultTab.aspx?id=387
General limit
Workers are not allowed to work more than 8 hours a day on average.
Labour Act Art. 19
General limit
Workers are not allowed to work more than 38 hours a week on average.
Act Regarding the Compatibility Between Work and Life Quality Art.2
Duration
General
In the private sector, the number of days of annual leave depends in each case on the number of days of work performed by a worker per week and the number of weeks of work performed during the calendar year immediately preceding the year during which the holidays are taken.
In this sense, after one year of full employment, the employee shall be entitled to: - 24 working days if they work 6 days per week; and - 20 working days if they work 5 days per week.
Law Setting Legal Rules Regarding Annual Holidays Art. 3 Royal Order of 30 March 1967
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: The number of holidays depends on the number of days worked per week and the number of weeks worked per year. If the employee works a full year:
24 days for a 6 day week.
20 days for a 5 day week.
2007: 24 days per year worked
1995: 24 days.
Payment
Amount
For blue-collar workers (ouvriers), holiday pay is paid by the holiday fund to which they are affiliated. That means that the employer does not pay any wages to his workers but he does have to pay a special social security contribution in order to finance the holidays of his blue-collar workers. They receive 15,38% of their salary earned in the preceeding year.
For white-collar workers (employés), the holiday pay is paid by the employer who pays wages to his employees. They receive their nomal remuneration for the time of holidays and a supplement of one twelveth of 92% of their gross salary of the month in which the holidays start.
The payment of the annual leave shall be made at the moment of commencement of such leave. If the annual leave period is splitted, the payment shall be made at the moment the worker takes the main period of the annual leave, but not earlier than on the 2 of May in each year.
Royal Order of 30 March 1967 Art.23
Belize - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
23 September 2011
General limit
No worker shall be obliged to work for more than nine hours of actual work in any day or forty-five hours of actual work in any week.
Labour Act §116(1)
General limit
No worker shall be obliged to work on more than six days in any week or for more than forty-five hours of actual work in any week.
Labour Act §116(1)
Duration
General
The duration of the annual leave shall be two working weeks.
Labour Act §127(1)
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
1995: 6 working days (14 in practice)
Payment
Amount
Every worker who takes an annual holiday shall be paid by his employer in respect of such annual holiday his average pay in respect of the period of his employment with such employer during the period of twelve months to which such annual holiday relates.
No deduction shall be made in respect of agreed rest days from the wages of a worker which are to be paid to him as holiday pay.
Labour Act §128(1)(4)
Date of payment
Where the worker takes his annual holiday in one period, the average pay shall be paid to him not later than the day immediately preceding the commencement of such annual holiday.
Where the worker takes his annual holiday in two separate periods of equal duration, one-half of the average pay shall be paid to him not later than the day immediately preceding the commencement of each of the two periods.
Labour Act §128(2)(3)
Benin - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
08 November 2011.
General limit
Decrees enacted, after consultation with the National Labour Council, the modalities of division of labour over the different days of the week, as well as the limits of hours of work per day.
Labour Code §142(3)
General limit
In every establishment subject to the present Code, except agricultural establishments, the legal working time of workers, regardless of sex and type of remuneraton, shall be of 40 hours per week.
Labour Code §142(1)
Duration
General
Unless there are more favorable provisions in collective agreements or employment contracts, the worker acquires the right to leave, to be paid by the employer, at the rate of 2 working days per month of effective service. A working days is every day other than the day of weekly rest period and holidays.
Labour Code §158(1)
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 24 days (two days per month worked)
2007: 24 days (two days per month worked)
1995: 24 working days.
Exceptions
The duration of the leave forseen in paragraph 1 of the present article is increased at a rate of 2 working days after 20 years of continuous effective service in the same company, 4 working days after 25 years, 6 working days after 30 years, without having the cumulation of the total days of leave exceeding 30 working days for 12 months of work. The increase on leave entitles the worker to an increase of the leave payment.
Act on Holidays §158(3)
Payment
Amount
The employer shall pay to the worker, during the total duration of the leave, 1/12 of the salaries and benefits received by the worker in the course of the 12 months preceeding the leave. Bonuses, indemnities constituting reimboursements of professional fees, and particular indemnity paid to expatriates, shall not be included for the calculation of the leave payment. In case of splitting, the payment shall be divided proportionally to the duration of each period of leave.
Labour Code §165
Bolivia - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
2 November 2011
General limit
Effective working time shall not exceed 8 hours per day.
General Labour Act Art.46
General limit
Effective working time shall not exceed 48 hours per week.
General Labour Act Art.46
Duration
General
There are different scales of annual leave depending on the seniority of the worker. To this respect; workers having performed from 1 to 5 years of service are entitled to enjoy 15 working days, from 5 to 10 years, 20 working days, and from 10 years onwards, 30 working days.
General Labour Act Art.44
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: one week
2007: Workers who have worked for more than one consecutive year and less than five for the same employer are entitled to one week annual leave.
1995: 15 working days.
Payment
Amount
During the annual leave the worker is entitled to enjoy the 100% of his salary.
General Labour Act Art.44
Botswana - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
16 November 2011.
General limit
Except as hereinafter provided, an employee shall not be required under his contract of employment to work- (b) more than an ordinary working period of eight hours in any one day or more than 48 hours in any one week Provided that- (i) an employee engaged in work which by reason of its nature requires to be carried on continuously may be required to work for eight consecutive hours if those hours include a period or periods of rest of not less than 45 minutes in the aggregate during which period or one of which periods he shall be provided with the opportunity to have a meal; and (ii) where the working week is one of five days, the hours of work in each day may be increased to nine; but these hours shall be interrupted by a period or periods of rest of not less than one hour in the aggregate during which period or one of which periods the employee shall be provided with the opportunity to have a meal.
Except where an employee is required to work under subsection (2) or in exceptional circumstances not covered by that subsection, no employee shall work for more than 12 hours in any one day.
Employment Act §95(1)b)(10)
General limit
No employee shall be required to work, other than as provided for in paragraph 7(3), more than nine hours in any one working day or a total of 45 hours in any working week of six days or, in the case of persons employed by the undertaking solely to watch over any property of the industry, more than 10 hours in any one working day or a total of 60 hours in any working week of six days: Provided that no employee with the exception of persons employed by the undertaking solely to watch over any property in the industry shall be required to work continuously for more than five hours without an interval of at least half-an-hour.
Regulation of Wages (Manufacturing, service or repair trade) Order §4
Duration
General
Every employer shall grant to every employee employed by him leave with basic pay at the rate of not less than 1,25 days per month.
Employment Act §98(2)
Payment
Amount
The basic pay payable in respect of any period of leave for which this section makes provision, whether accumulated or otherwise, or in accordance with subsection (6)(b) shall be the current basic pay.
Employment Act §98(8)
Brazil - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
18 February 2011.
Remarks: Article 7 of the Consolidation of Labour Law states that it shall not apply - unless said expressely otherwise in a specific legislation - to domestic workers, rural workers - more specifically those working directly with agriculture and livestock - public servants, or any other person working within a public administration institution.
General limit
8 hours
Constitution of Federative Republic of Brazil §7(13) Codification of Labour Legislation §58
General limit
44 hours
Constitution of Federative Republic of Brazil §7(13)
Duration
General
The length of annual leave depends on the number of days of absence from work: 30 days when the worker was absent no more than 5 days; 24 days when the worker was absent between 6 and 14 days; 18 days when the worker was absent between 15 and 23 dayz; 12 days when the worker was absent between 24 and 32 days.
Codification of Labour Legislation §130(I)-(IV)
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
1995: System of gradual paid annual leave, depending on days absent from work, starting with 12 calendar days of leave for 24-32 days of absence per year.
Exceptions
One-third of the annual leave may be replaced by a payment, except for part-time workers.
Codification of Labour Legislation §143
Payment
Amount
The worker shall receive the same amount of his/her wage during his/her leave.
Codification of Labour Legislation §142
Date of payment
The payment of the leave shall be done at the latest 2 days before the beggining of the period mentioned.
Codification of Labour Legislation §145
Brunei Darussalam - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
19 September 2011
Remarks: The Attorney General's Chambers of Brunei Darussalam website is a good source of all type of legislation. http://www.agc.gov.bn/
General limit
An employee shall not be required to work more than 8 hours in one day.
Employment Order §65(1)(b)
General limit
An employee shall not be required to work more than 44 hours in one week.
§65(1)(b)
Duration
General
The duration of the paid annual leave shall correspond to 7 days in respect of the first 12 months of continuous service with the same employer, and an additional one day’s annual leave for every subsequent 12 months of continuous service with the same employer and up to maximum 14 days of such leave.
Employment Order §71(1)(a)(b)
Exceptions
An employer who has served an employer for a period of not less than 3 months but who has not completed 12 months of continuous service in any year shall be entitled to annual leave in proportion to the number of completed months of service in that year.
Employment Order §71(2)
Payment
Amount
The employer shall pay the employee his gross rate of pay for every day of such annual leave and if an employee has been dismissed otherwise than for misconduct before he has taken that leave, the employer shall pay him his gross rate of pay in respect of every day of that leave.
Employment Order §71(7)
Bulgaria - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
12 September 2012
Remarks: The latest version of the Labour Code available in English is from 2004 and since that numerous amendments have occurred. Concerning working time; on 22 July 2010, it have been amended several provisions regarding annual leave, religious holidays, termination of employment, liability for non respect the legislation and part-time work, among other issues. In addition, on 6 October 2011, it have been introduced several provisions in the Labour Code regarding working conditions for telework.
A version of the Labour Code as amended up to 29 June 2012 is provided in Bulgarian together with the version in English of 2004 and an informal translation of the relevant amending Laws.
General limit
The general limit of working hours is set in 8 hours per day.
Labour Code Art.136(3)
General limit
The general limit of working hours is set in 40 hours per week.
Labour Code Art.136(1)
Duration
General
Every worker shall be entitled to enjoy at least 20 work days of annual leave.
Labour Code Art.155(1)(4)
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 20 working days
2007: 20 working days
1995: 14 working days.
Exceptions
According to the special nature of their work, some categories of employees shall be entitled to an extension of the annual paid leave.
To this respect, workers with unhealthy or special conditions of work (where risks to their lives and health cannot be reduced regardless of measures taken) are entitled to at least five additional leave days.
A longer duration of the annual leave period may be agreed in a collective agreement, as well as between the parties to an employment relationship.
Labour Code Art.155(5), 156, 156bis
Payment
Amount
During the annual leave period, the worker shall be entitled to a remuneration calculated from the average daily gross pay in the last month preceeding the enjoyment of such leave, provided that he/ she has worked at least 10 days.
It shall be prohibited to compensate for the annual paid leave in cash, except at the termination of the employment relationship.
Labour Code Art. 177, 178
Date of payment
The remuneration for the annual leave is paid at the request of the employee, at least 3 days before the start of the leave.
Decree No. 72/1986 on hours of work, rest and leave Art.41
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