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Appendix I

MALAYSIA

Employment Ordinance, 1955

Section 60A (1)

Except as hereinafter provided, an employee shall not be required under his contract of service to work -

(a) more than six consecutive hours without

a period of leisure;

(b) more than eight hours in one day or

more than forty-eight hours in one week;

Provided that

(i) an employee who is engaged in work which

must be carried on continuously may be required to work for eight consecutive hours inclusive of a period or periods of not less than forty-five minutes in the aggregate during which he shall have the opportunity to have a meal; and

(ii) where, by agreement under the contract

of service between the employee and the employer, the number of hours of work on one or more days of the week is less than eight, the limit of eight hours may be, exceeded on the remaining days of the week, but so that no employee shall be required to work for more than nine hours in one day or forty-eight hours in one week.

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THE PHILIPPINES

Labour Code of the Philippines, Third Official Edition (1977)

Book Three, Title I, Working Conditions and Rest Periods

Article 83 (Normal hours of work)

The normal hours work of any employee should not exceed eight (8) in a day.

Health personnel in cities or municipalities with a population of at least one million or in hospitals or clinics with a bed capacity of at least one hundred (100) shall keep regular office hours for eight (8) hours a day, for five (5) days a week, or a total of forty(40) hours a week, exclusive of time for meals, except where the exigencies of the service require

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