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Table 4 Overtime work

:

機密

Territory

Hong Kong

;

::

Maximum overtime permitted

For male workers aged 18 years and above:

No statutory restriction.

For female workers:

Two hours a day and 200 hours a year.

For young persons aged 16 and 17 years:

Two hours a day and 100 hours a year

(from 1.1.78).

This will be abolished in stages by 1980. For young persons aged 14 and 15 years:

Overtime work is prohibited.

Title of legislation

(Please refer to

Table 2 for the

scope of application)

Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations

Indonesia

For both male and female workers:

Not more than two hours a day and 14

hours per week.

Total hours of work shall not be more

than 54 per week.

Act No. 1 of 1951

Korea

1

(Republic

of)

For male workers:

Not more than two hours per day and

12 hours per week.

For female workers:

Not more than two hours a day, six

hours a week and 150 hours a year.

For young persons (aged 13-18):

Not more than two hours a day subject to authorization by the Director- General of the Office of Labour Affairs

Labour Standards Law, 1953.

Malaysia

For both male and female workers:

Not more than four hours per day and

32 hours per month.

Employment Ordinance,

1955

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