Section 28: Working hours

1) No employer shall employ labourers to work more than eight hours a day and forty-eight hours a week.

2) The labourers shall be provided with half an hour’s rest after five hours of continuous work.

3) In cases where work is not to be stopped and is to be carried out continuously, labourers shall be provided with such rest time turn by turn.

4) The rest time to be provided pursuant to sub-sections (2) and (3) shall be counted in the working hours referred to in sub-section (1).