After the reference period established in art. 178 (12 months), the worker is entitled to 1,5 day of leave per month of effective service.
Labour Code §180(1)
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 1,5 days per month.
2006: In this case, collective or individual agreements may foresee a longer time work period entitling to take leave, not superior to 30 days. In all cases, right to leave may be deferred upon agreement between the parties, but the work period may not exceed 3 years.
Additional days are granted according to seniority of worker in the undertaking, as provided for in regulations or collective agreements.
Family mothers are entitled to 1 additional annual leave day per each child under 14 years' age.
One and a half weekdays per month worked for workers of at least 18 years' age.
Two weekdays per month worked for workers under 18 years' age.
Right to leave starts after 12 months of work for above workers.
Two weekdays per month worked for workers occupied far away from their home. (form of compensation - "indemnité d'éloignement").
1995: 18 working days.
Exceptions
3 days per month for employees whose normal residence is not in Mauritania. One additional day annual leave is granted for 10-15 years of seniority, two additional days for 15-20 years seniority and 3 days for a seniority exceeding 20 years.
Labour Code §180, 181
Payment
Amount
The employer shall pay to the worker, at the time of departure on leave, an allowance equal to 1/12 of the amount received as remuneration by the worker during the reference period, including eventual indemnities, in-kind payments linked to the employment, amongst other benefits.
Labour Code §188(1)
Date of payment
The employer shall pay to the worker, at the time of departure on leave, an allowance equal to 1/12 of the amount received as remuneration by the worker during the reference period, including eventual indemnities, in-kind payments linked to the employment, amongst other benefits.
Labour Code §188(1)
Number and dates
7 Days:
- El Mawlid; - El Fitre; - El Adha; - Mouharram; - 1st January; - 1st may, Labour Day; - 25 May, Africa’s Liberation Day.
Act on Holidays §1
Payment
Holidays shall be paid.
Act on Holidays §2
Mauritius - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
13 October 2011.
Duration
General
Subject to subsection (7), every worker, other than a part-time worker, who remains in continuous employment with the same employer for a period of 12 consecutive months shall be entitled, during each subsequent period of 12 months while he remains in continuous employment, to 20 working days’ annual leave or such similar leave under any other name.
Notwithstanding subsection (1), every worker shall be entitled to 2 days’ leave in every year, in addition to the leave specified in: (a) subsection (1); (b) any other enactment; (c) any agreement; (d) any collective agreement; or (e) any award following arbitration.
Employment Rights Act 2008 §27(1)(2)
Remarks: Any agreement by a worker to relinquish his annual leave entitlement under this section shall be null and void.
This section shall be subject to any agreement, collective agreement, award or any other enactment, notwithstanding section 3. Employment Rights Act, §27(6)(7)
Payment
Amount
Where a worker has not taken or been granted all the leave to which he is entitled under this section, he shall be paid a normal day¿s wage in respect of each day’s annual leave still due at the end of the period of 12 consecutive months.
Employment Rights Act 2008 §27(5)
Number and dates
Holidays in Mauritius in 2011: 16 days
- New Year Saturday 1 January - New Year Sunday 2 January - New Year (special) Monday 3 January - Thaipoosam Cavadee Thursday 20 January - Abolition of Slavery Tuesday 1 February - Chinese Spring Festival Thursday 3 February - Maha Shivaratree Wednesday 2 March - National Day Saturday 12 March - Ougadi Monday 4 April - Labour Day Sunday 1 May - Eid-Ul-Fitr* Wednesday 31 August - Ganesh Chaturthi Friday 2 September - Divali Wednesday 26 October - All Saints Day Tuesday 1 November - Arrival of Indentured Labourers Wednesday 2 November - Christmas Sunday 25 December
Public Holidays in Mauritius
Payment
A daily paid worker who remains in continuous employment with the same employer for a period of 12 consecutive months shall be entitled during each subsequent period of 12 months while he remains in continuous employment, to a normal day’s pay in respect of every public holiday, other than a Sunday, on which he is not required to work that occurs while he remains in the continuous employment of the employer.
Employment Rights Act 2008 §17(1)
Morocco - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
31 March 2011.
Remarks: Article 3 of the Labour Act states that the following professional activities shall be regulated by a specific legislation: workers of public companies or establishments of relevance to the State and to local authorities; sailors; workers of mine companies; professional journalists; workers of the film industry; caretakers of appartment buildings.
Duration
General
Every employee, having worked at least 6 months continuously in the same company, is entitled to paid annual leave as it follows, unles there are more favourable clauses in the collective agreement, company rules, or in the labour contract:
1. 1 and 1/2 day of effective work for every month of service. 2. 2 days of effective work for every month of service for those aged under 18.
The paid annual leave is increased in one and a half day of effective work for an entire period, continue or not, of 5 years of service. However, this increase cannot be accumulated when the total annual leave has reached the limit of 30 working days.
An "effective day of work" day is that which is not a weekly rest day, a holiday and general holidays of the company.
The working month is defined as: 26 effective working days or 191 working hours in the non agricultural sector or 208 in the agricultural sector.
Labour Code §231, 232, 236, 238.
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: The annual leave amounts to 1 and 1/2 day per working month after 6 months of service. Annual leave is increased by 1 and 1/2 day after 5 years of service with the same employer or undertaking until a limit of 30 days.
The working month is defined as: 26 effective working days or 191 working hours in the non agricultural sector or 208 in the agricultural sector.
2007: The annual leave amounts to 1 and 1/2 day per working month after 6 months of service. Annual leave is increased by 1 and 1/2 day after 5 years of service with the same employer or undertaking until a limit of 30 days.
The working month is defined as: 26 effective working days or 191 working hours in the non agricultural sector or 208 in the agricultural sector.
1995: 21 days after 12 months of continuous employment.
Exceptions
Workers with less than 6 months, but at least 1 month of service, are entitled to 1.5 days’ or 2 days’ compensation per month worked.
Labour Code §251-252
Payment
Amount
The employee has the right to receive during his/her annual leave the salary equivalent to that he/she would receive if he/she was in service.
Contract workers with at least 26 days of service with the same employer or undertaking are entitled to an indemnity equivalent to 1 and 1/2 day (2 days for the young workers under 18 years) per 26-day period of work.
Labour Code §249, 253
Date of payment
The payment shall be done at the latest one day before the date of the beginning of the leave.
Labour Code §259
Number and dates
11th January (Manifest of independence) 1st May (Labour Day) 30th July (Throne party) 14th August (Oued ED-Dahb Day) 20th August (King’s and People’s Revolution day) 21th August (Youth Party) Besides that, Aîd el Fitr, aîd el Adha, 1st moharrem and Aîd el maoulid Annabaoui are considered holidays.
All of them are to be paid.
Decree to prescribe the list of Public holidays with pay in industrial and commercial undertakings, the liberal professions, and agriculture and forestry undertakings §1
Mozambique - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
08 March 2011.
Remarks: Article 3 of the Labour Code states that the following activities shall be regulated by a special legislation: domestic workers; homeworkers; mine workers; port workers; maritime workers; rural workers; artistic workers; sports workers; private security workers; daily workers; own-account workers; service providers (flat-rate fee workers).
Duration
General
(1) One day for every month of actual service, during the first year of service; (2) Two days for every month of actual service, during the second year of service; (3) Thirty days for every year of actual service, from the third year onwards.
Labour Act § 99
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: (1) One day for every month of actual service, during the first year of service;
(2) Two days for every month of actual service, during the second year of service;
(3) Thirty days for every year of actual service, from the third year onwards.
2007: Employees are entitled to the following paid annual holidays:
(1) One day for every month of actual service, during the first year of service;
(2) Two days for every month of actual service, during the second year of service;
(3) Thirty days for every year of actual service, from the third year onwards.
1995: 15 days.
Namibia - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
16 September 2011.
Duration
General
Every employee is entitled to at least four consecutive weeks annual leave in respect of each annual leave cycle (which means the period of 12 consecutive months employment with the same employer immediately following an employee`s commencement of employment or the completion of the last annual leave cycle). If the number of days in an ordinary work week are 6 the annual leave entitlement in working days is 24.
Labour Act §§ 8, 23
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: Every employee is entitled to at least four consecutive weeks annual leave in respect of each annual leave cycle (which means the period of 12 consecutive months employment with the same employer immediately following an employee`s commencement of employment or the completion of the last annual leave cycle).
If the number of days in an ordinary work week are 6 the annual leave entitlement in working days is 24.
2007: Each worker in each calendar year is entitled to 24 consecutive working days' annual leave.
1995: 24 consecutive days.
Payment
Amount
(2) Every employee is entitled to at least four consecutive weeks¿ annual leave with full remuneration in respect of each annual leave cycle.
Labour Act §23(2)
Remarks: (1) For the purpose of this section ¿ordinary work week¿ means the number of days per week ordinarily worked by an employee.
Labour Act, §23(1)
Date of payment
(6) An employer must pay the remuneration due to an employee in respect of annual leave - (a) according to that employee¿s regular pay schedule, if the employee is paid by direct deposit as contemplated in section 11(1)(b)(ii); or (b) in any other case, not later than - (i) the last working day before the commencement of the annual leave; or (ii) not later than the first pay day after the end of the leave period, if the employee requests such an extension in writing.
Labour Act §23(6)
Number and dates
12 days. New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Independence Day (21st of March), Workers Day (1st May), Cassinga Day (4th of May), Ascension Day, Africa Day (21st May), Heroes Day (26th August), Day of the Namibian Women and International Human Rights Day (10th December), Christmas Day (24th December), Familiy Day (26th Day).
Public Holidays Act §4
Niger - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
01 March 2011.
Remarks: The Labour Code applies to the whole territory of Niger. It applies to private and public enterprises but excludes permanent civil servants. §§ 1, 2.
Duration
General
30 calendar days (two and a half calendar days per month of work)
Labour Code § 108 Interprofessional Collective Agreement, 15 December 1992. §54
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 30 days (two and a half calendar days per month of work)
2007: 30 days (two and a half calendar days per month of work)
1995: 18 working days.
Exceptions
Seniority entitles a worker to additional days of leave: 2 additional days after 20 years with the same enterprise; 4 additional days after 25 years; 6 additional days after 30 years.
Labour Code § 108
Payment
Amount
Full wages on a 12 months average. The salary of reference for the determination of the wage to be payed during holidays also includes other advantages received by the worker during his time of work, such as bonuses, gratifications, overtime work, payments in kind, etc.
Labour Code §§ 118, 156 Interprofessional Collective Agreement, 15 December 1992. §55
Date of payment
Latestly when the workers leave for holidays.
Labour Code § 118
Number and dates
Twelve days.
The collective agreement also establishes as holidays, besides those detemined by law, the following days: Ascension, 15th August (Assumption), 1st November (Toussaint).
Act to Establish Public Holidays § 1 Interprofessional Collective Agreement, 15 December 1992. §51
Remarks: 1st January; Easter Monday; 24th April (Journee nationale de la Concorde); 1st May (Labour Day); 3rd August (Anniversary of the Proclamation of Independence); 18th December (Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic); Christmas Day; the day after Lailatoul-Qadr; Aid Al-Fit'r (Ramadan); Aid al-Kabir (Tabaski) and the day after; Mouloud; first day of the Muslim calendar.
Payment
Public holidays are paid as well as Mondays following a Public Holiday that fell on a Sunday.
Act to Establish Public Holidays § 2
Nigeria - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
18 August 2011.
Duration
General
Every worker shall be entitled after twelve months continuous service to a holiday with full pay of (a) at least six working days;
Labour Act §18(1)a)
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 6 days
2007: 6 days
1995: 6 working days (in practice 12 days).
Payment
Amount
In the calculation of leave pay and sickness benefits only that part of his wages which a worker receives in money (excluding overtime and other allowances) shall be taken into account.
Labour Act §19
Remarks: It shall be unlawful for an employer to pay wages in lieu of the holiday mentioned in subsection (1) of this section to a worker whose contract has not terminated. Labour Act §18(3) referring to
Every worker shall be entitled after twelve months continuous service to a holiday with full pay of (a) at least six working days; or (b) in the case of persons under the age of sixteen years (including apprentices), at least twelve working days. Labour Act §18(1)
Number and dates
There 9 days of public holidays. They are:
1. New Year’s Day 2. Good Friday 3. Easter Monday 4. Workers’ Day (1st May). 5. National Day (1st October). 6. Christmas Day 7. Such day as the Minister may declare to be a public holiday in celebration of the Muslim festival of Id el Fitr. 8. Such day as the Minister may declare to be a public holiday in celebration of the Muslim festival of Id el Kabir. 9. Such day as the Minister may declare to be a public holiday in celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammed (Id el Maulud).
In addition to days mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, the President may by public notice appoint a special day to be kept as a public holiday either throughout Nigeria or in any part thereof, and any day so appointed shall be kept as a public holiday.
Public Holidays Act Schedule , §2(1)
Rwanda - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
08 April 2011.
Remarks: Article 3 (Labour Code): Exclusion from the scope of application Every person employed under the general statutes for the Rwanda public service or every person under specific statutes shall not be subjected to the provisions of this law, except for matters that may be provided for by Prime Minister¿s orders. The person dealing with family agricultural, breeding, commercial or industrial activities shall not be subjected to the provisions of this law, except for provisions relating to health and safety at workplace as well as to prohibitions for child labour and for pregnant or breastfeeding women. The informal sector worker is not subjected to provisions of this law, except for issues relating to social security, the trade union organizations and those relating to health and safety at workplace.
Duration
General
Except for more favorable provisions from collective conventions between employer and worker or individual employment contract, every worker shall be entitled to a paid leave at the employer’s expenses, on the basis of one and a half working days per month of effective continued work. Official holidays shall not be considered as part of the annual paid leave. The worker shall benefit from one working day per year of annual paid leave for every three years of experience in the same institution. However, annual paid leave, in any case, can not exceed twenty one (21) working days.
Labour Code §53(1)
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 18 days (one and a half days per month).
2007: 18 days (one and a half days per month)
1995: 18 working days.
Exceptions
If the worker works less than fourty five (45) hours per week, his/her leave is counted to the prorota of the hours she/he worked for.
A less than eighteen (18) years old worker is entitled to a two (2) working days leave per month of continued work.
Labour Code §53(2)(3)
Payment
Amount
The employer must pay the worker an allocation equal to the average of salaries the worker received for the last twelve months and other benefits he/she is entitled to as provided for by the employment contract.
Labour Code § 55
Number and dates
07 days.
The official national holidays are:
1 January (New Year) 7 April (Memoir to the Genocide Day) 1 May (Labour Day) 1 July (Independence Day) 4 July (Liberation Day) 25 December (Christmas Day) The day EID-EL-FITR (this date shall be comunicated every year by the R.M.A (Rwanda’s Muslims Association).
Presidential Decree N.07/01 from 06/03/1996 establishing the national holidays. §1
Payment
For every public holiday, the worker shall benefit from his/her full salary.
Labour Code § 59
Sao Tome and Principe - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
13 April 2011.
Remarks: Article 3 of the Act regulating Individual Labour Relations states that untill there is a specific legislation regulating public servants, the provisions of the act shall apply to them. Besides that, it excludes from the scope of the act on bord work, port work and domestic work, saying that these labour relations shall be regulated by a specific legislation.
Duration
The annual leave shall be of 30 consecutive days, not counting weekly rest periods nor initial or final holidays.
Act 6/92, from 11/06/1992, regulating Individual Labour Relations. §63
Payment
The annual leave shall be paid as if the employee was performing effective work.
The payment shall be made before the beginning of the leave, unless other date was agreed between the employer and the employee.
Act 6/92, from 11/06/1992, regulating Individual Labour Relations. §66
Amount
The annual leave shall be paid as if the employee was performing effective work.
Act 6/92, from 11/06/1992, regulating Individual Labour Relations. §66(1)
Date of payment
The payment shall be made before the beginning of the leave, unless other date was agreed between the employer and the employee.
Act 6/92, from 11/06/1992, regulating Individual Labour Relations. §66(2)
Payment
The worker is entitled to payment for national holidays, without having to perform overtime work in order to compensate it.
Act 6/92, from 11/06/1992, regulating Individual Labour Relations. §59
Senegal - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
1 August 2011
Duration
General
The worker enjoys 2 days of annual leave for each month of work performed over a year.
Labour Code Art.L.148
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 24 days (2 days per month).
2007: 24 days (2 days per month).
1995: 1,5 days per month worked after 12 months of employment.
Exceptions
Annual leave is increased according to the seniority of the worker and in relation to specific regulations and collective agreements.
Labour Code Art.L.148
Payment
Amount
The amount perceived for annual leave is equivalent to 1/12 of the annual pay.
Labour Code Art.L153
Date of payment
The amount shall be paid before departing for the annual leave.
Labour Code Art.L.153
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