1. Normal working hours of employees:

• Normal working hours of employees under normal conditions

Currently, according to state regulations, if an employee works in normal conditions, the standard working time of an employee is eight hours a day, not exceeding forty-eight hours a day to ensure the health of workers. Our country is currently encouraging businesses that employ workers to follow the forty-hour-a-week regime.

• Working hours of people doing heavy, toxic or dangerous jobs

As for the normal working hours of workers who work during hazardous or especially hazardous and hazardous activities, the employer must be responsible for ensuring the limit of working time exposed to dangerous factors. dangerous and harmful elements in accordance with national technical regulations and relevant laws.

+ Currently, for minors, because they do not have full civil act capacity and are not yet physically developed, the working time for this special subject is regulated as follows:

For people under 15 years old, no more than 40 hours in 01 days and 20 hours in 01 weeks, no overtime or night work is allowed.

The working time of a person from 15 years old to under 18 years old must not exceed 08 hours in 01 days and 40 hours in 01 week. People from 15 years old to under 18 years old can work overtime or work at night in a number of occupations and jobs according to the list issued by the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.

In addition, the state also pays great attention to and regulates working hours and work that is heavy, hazardous, dangerous or extremely heavy for different subjects, including maternity protection regimes for women. For female employees who are pregnant and have children under 12 months old, each working day will be shortened by one hour/day, not exceeding 7 hours/day or not exceeding 42 hours per week. /week.

For elderly employees, they have the right to agree with the employer on shortening daily working hours or applying a partial-time working regime.

2. Hours counted as paid working hours:

+ During the working process according to the provisions of law, the company will specifically regulate the break time between working hours depending on the working time. Specifically

+ Employees who work for 6 hours or more in a day are entitled to a break of at least 30 consecutive minutes; those who work at night are entitled to a break of at least 45 consecutive minutes.

+ In case the employee works in a continuous shift of 6 hours or more, the break time is counted as working hours.

+ In addition to the break time mentioned above, employers can also arrange breaks for employees and record them in the labor regulations.

+ In addition, workers during the working process are also given necessary breaks within the norm due to natural human physiological needs such as going to the toilet.

+ Female workers also receive attention from the Party and State as recorded in relevant legal documents and policies in the field of labor. For female workers doing occupations or jobs that are heavy, toxic, dangerous or particularly heavy, toxic, dangerous or doing occupations or jobs that have a negative impact on reproductive and child-rearing functions during pregnancy and notify the employer, the employer will be able to switch to a lighter, safer job or reduce 01 hour of daily work without any reduction in salary, rights and benefits. until the end of the period of raising children under 12 months old and female employees during menstruation are entitled to 30 minutes of rest per day, while while raising children under 12 months of age are entitled to 60 minutes of rest per day during working time. During the time off, you will still receive full salary according to the labor contract.

+ During work due to many objective reasons in the production and business process due to electricity and water incidents, natural disasters, epidemics, fires that cause damage to the business or because the business is implementing Moving production and business headquarters because the economy has to narrow production, reduce working hours, and reduce workplaces, this period of time, even though not working, is still counted as working time for the employee and in reality Depending on each enterprise, employees are still paid severance pay as follows:

– In case of cessation of work for 14 working days or less, the salary for cessation of work shall be agreed to be no lower than the minimum wage;

– In case of stopping work for more than 14 working days, the salary for stopping work will be agreed upon by both parties but must ensure that the salary for stopping work in the first 14 days is not lower than the minimum wage.

In addition, according to the provisions of Article 58 of Decree 245/2020/ND-CP, the hours counted as paid working hours, in addition to the above regulations, also include:

+ Time for meetings, study, and training at the request of the employer or agreed by the employer.

+ Hours for apprentices, direct trainees or labor participants as prescribed in Clause 5, Article 61 of the Labor Code.

+ The time that the employee is a member of the leadership board of the employee representative organization at the facility is used to perform tasks as prescribed in Clauses 2 and 3, Article 176 of the Labor Code.

+ Time for health check-up, examination to detect occupational diseases, medical assessment to determine the level of reduced ability to work due to labor accidents or occupational diseases, if such time is carried out according to the arrangement or at the request of the employer.

+ Time for registration, examination, and health check for military service, if that time is entitled to full salary according to the provisions of law on military service.

3. Working hours at night:

Currently, the law also regulates working hours at night for employees. Due to the nature and characteristics of each job, each business has different regulations on working hours, but about working hours at night. At night, there will be general regulations applicable to all businesses to protect the rights of employees when working between ten o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning of the next day in accordance with the provisions of the Law. labor law

Such regulation of working hours aims to ensure the rights of workers in good health, to limit occupational diseases caused by the working process, and to contribute to the implementation of legal policies and regimes. labor of individuals, there are employers in labor relations and there are also sanctions to strictly handle cases of individuals, organizations and businesses that violate the law on working hours. will be handled for administrative violations depending on the nature and extent of violations committed by enterprises in accordance with the provisions of labor law to develop socio-economic development in a sustainable, stable and long-term manner, as well as promote the production and business process effectively and with high quality for international integration.