Working Hours, Compulsory Rest Periods, and Vacations (Chapter V)

Working Hours, Compulsory Rest Periods, and Vacations (Chapter V)

1. Maximun (Art. 47).

   • The maximun work day will be eight hours a day, so that it does not exceed forty hours a week.

2. Night Day (Art. 49)

   • This is takes place between 7:00pm and 6:00am the next day.
     • This will give the right to equel remuneration that day, increased by twenty five porcent.

3. Limit of forcet day and rest (Art. 50)

   • The obligatory days of work can no exceed five in the week. (forty weekly hours).
     • Saturdays and sundays will be of forced rest.

4. Work on Saturday and Sundays (Art. 52)

   • Need to avoid serious damage to the establishment.

5. Weekly pard rest (Art. 53)

   • This is paid with the amount equivalent to the full remuneration that is two days.

6. Remuneration for additional and extraordinary hours (Art. 55)

   • The suplementary hours maynot exceed four in a day, nor twelvw in the week.
   • The employer will pay the corresponding remuneration for each of the suplementary hours with a fifty percent surcharge

7. Division of the day (Art. 57)

   • The ordinary work day may be divided into two-parts.
     • This parts with rest of up to two hours after the first four hours of work.

8. Compensation to the employer (Art. 59)

   • If the worker, without just cause, stops working the eight hours of the ordinary day, he will lose the proportional part of the remuneration.

9. Recovery of work hours (Art. 60)

   • Due to accidental causes, the employer will pay the compensation for the interruption of work.
     • Recover lost hours by increasing three hours per day until you complete the interrupted hours.
       • The employee who does not want to submit to supplementary work will return the remuneration paid

10. Days of mandatory rest (Art.65)

    • these in addition to the Saturdays and Sundays are obligatory days
      • The obligatory days are: January 1, Holy Friday, May 1 and 24, August 10, October 9, November 2 and 3 and December 25.
    • Annual holiday (Art. 69)
      • All workers will have 15 days of rest, including non-work days, workers who are older than 5 years will also receive a day of rest for each of the years of work.