Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651)

Section 37 - Manual labourers

(1) The Minister may prescribe shorter hours of work for workers in jobs declared to be manual labour and in jobs likely to be injurious to health.

(2) Work for which shorter hours are prescribed under section (1) shall be deemed to be equivalent to work done on the basis of eight hours a day for the purposes of all rights which may flow from the employment.

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