Mali www.Droi tAfrique.comb vehicles. This duration may be increased by one hour when the rest period is included in the period of service; • • 11) work by employees in the medical department and other institutions created for workers and employees of the institution and their respective families : one hour maximum. The special dispensations spelt out in this article shall apply to adult personnel of both sexes, excluding the special dispensations referred to in numbers l, 2 and 7, which apply only to adult men. • A presence of forty-six hours weekly, corresponding to forty hours of actual work done for staff assigned to retailing foodstuff. A presence of fifty hours weekly for staff employed in stores and hairs saloons for men, women and children. Given the stops and dead time inherent to their profession, the duration of service of househelps and domestic workers shall be set at two hundred and sixty hours monthly, corresponding to actual work done of one hundred and seventy-three hours one third. Section 5 - Overtime Section 4 - Equivalences Art.A.136.1.- Applicants to some jobs shall be allowed to be present at work for a period higher than the legal work duration, should this be due to the nature of these jobs or their intermittent nature. Art.A.136.2.- The following shall be instances of equivalence : • For the work of staff assigned exclusively to security or surveillance operations, the fire department, the weekly duration of work shall be fifty-six hours, equivalent to forty hours of actual work done. • Caretaker security guards living on the premises they watch over must be permanently present there subject to rest of twenty-four hours weekly and annual paid leave of two weeks in addition to their legal leave. • A presence of forty-two hours per week, equal to a duration of forty-hours of actual work done, for staff assigned to sales in wholesale and retail trade, docks and general stores as well as in the sale of retail goods other than foodstuff. • A presence of forty-five hours weekly for cooks and fifty hours weekly for staff other than cooks in beer parlours, tea shops, restaurants and hotels. • A presence of forty-five weeks weekly, corresponding to the legal duration of work, in hospitals, hospices, clinics, dispensaries, care homes, childbirth facilities and similar establishments. Implementing Decree of the Labour Code Art.A.140.1.- The duration of actual work done temporarily shall be extended beyond the limits assigned to the establishment subject to the following conditions : 1) urgent work whose immediate execution shall be necessary to prevent the inevitable loss of a product or imminent accidents, to organise measures to rescue or repair breakdowns to equipment, facilities, and buildings of the establishment. The maximum duration of actual work done daily for the said works shall be 2 hours; 2) urgent and special works in case the volume of work is exceptionally high. The number of hours authorised within the limits of an annual maximum shall be 75 hours. Art.A.140.2.- Overtime within the limit of a maximum of 18 hours weekly maybe carried out in order to maintain or increase production. The required authorisation shall be granted for a period of 3 months renewable to each institution head by the competent labour inspector. In the event of exceptional circumstances, the labour inspector may authorise some companies to go beyond the limit set in the subparagraph herein above. This overrun of the standard time may not result in the increase of the duration to over 60 hours per week. In case of extended unemployment in a particular sector or profession, the labour inspector may suspend the use of overtime in order to enable the hiring of unemployed workers. 6/11