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1981 Leg. Ser. 1 (1981)

handle is hein.intyb/lbrldc0063 and id is 1 raw text is: International Legislative Series Labour Office 1981-AIg. 1 ALGERIA 1 Act No. 81-03, to prescribe the statutory hours of work. Dated 21 February 1981. (Journal Officiel, 24 February 1981, No. 8, p. 124.) CHAPTER I. PURPOSE AND SCOPE 1. The purpose of this Act is to make provision for the daily and weekly hours of work. Subject to section 212 of Act No. 78-12 of 5 August 1978' to make general provision for workers' conditions of employment, it shall apply to all sectors of activity. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to self-employed persons. 2. The expression statutory hours of work means the time for which a worker is at the disposal of his undertaking, whether at his actual workplace or elsewhere, for the purpose of preparing for or carrying out the tasks inherent in his job. CHAPTER II. STATUTORY HOURS OF WORK 3. Hours of work shall be linked to development requirements and to the economic, cultural and social objectives of the Nation. They shall be determined in accordance with the rate of expansion of production, the improvement of labour productivity and scientific and technical progress. They shall in all cases be such as to permit a worker's self-fulfilment. 4. The weekly hours of work shall be fixed at 44. 5. By way of exception to section 4, the hours of work may be reduced in the case of persons employed on work involving a particular physical, intellectual or nervous strain, unhealthy or dangerous work or work implying particular requirements. A list of the types of work covered by the first paragraph of this section shall be drawn up by decree. The reduction in the hours of work provided for in the first paragraph of this section may take the form either of a reduction of the statutory daily or weekly hours of work or of breaks reckoned as working time within those hours. The reduction shall not in any circumstances exceed six hours a week. Rules for the application of this section shall be laid down in the model conditions of employment for each sector of activity. 6. Female workers who are not required to perform civilian service may opt to work half time. Rules for the application of this section shall be laid down by decree. 7. Rules for the arrangement of the statutory hours of work, as prescribed in section 2, shall be laid down in the model conditions of employment for the sector of activity concerned. Copyright © International Labour Organisation 1981 2/1981

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