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Appendix I

that such personnel work for six (6) days or forty-eight (48) hours, in which case they shall be entitled to an additional compensation of at least thirty per cent (30%) of their regular wage for work on the sixth day. For purposes of this Article, "health personne 1" shall include resident physician, nurses, nutritionists, dieticians, pharmacists, social workers, laboratory technicians, paramedical technicians, psychologists, midwives, attendants and all other hospital or clinical personnel.

Article 139(b).

A person between fifteen (15) and eighteen (18) years of age may be employed for such number of hours and such periods of the day as determined by the Secretary of Labour in appropriate regulations.

(Note: 80 for no regulations specifying the number of hours

that young persons may work have been made and the criterion for enforcement is still on the basis of the 8-hour day).

SINGAPORE

Employment Act, 1968

Section 38

(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-four hours in one week;

Provided that

(i) an employee who is agaged 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-four hours in one week.

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