a. Normal Working Time (Labour Protection Act, Sec. 23)
Let’s start with the normal working hours, which must not exceed eight hours a day, or as agreed by an employer and an employee, but not exceeding 48 hours a week. There are also special cases, e.g. work exceeding seven hours a day and 42 hours a week is not permitted where the health and safety of an employee is at risk. The legislation states examples such as underground work, underwater work, work in a cave or tunnel, work in a confined place, work involving radioactivity, metal welding work, hazardous substance transport work, hazardous chemical production work, work with an instrument or machine which may harm a worker by its vibration, and work involving extreme heat or cold which may be harmful. In any case where work by its