www.Droit-Afrique.com who work in public or private institutions, construction sites, plants , and State companies cannot claim to exercise retaining rights on objects that they have worked on. Payroll Deductions (Pursuant to Article L.96) Art.D.123-1.- The salaries of workers as meant in article L.I of the Labour Code shall be seizable or assignable for up to the sums stated in article D.1232. herein above. These sums shall include the salary and wage supplements, excluding unseizeable allowances, sums allocated as reimbursement for expenses incurred by the worker and dependency allowances or benefits. Art.D.123-2.- Salaries shall be assignable or seizable, based on the monthly salary for up to: • 1° 1/4 for salaries ranging between F20,960 and F62,880 ; • 2º 1/3 for salaries ranging between F62, 881and F125, 760; • 3º 1/2 for salaries ranging between F125,761and F251,520; • 4º 3/4 for salaries above F251,521. When the purpose for which the sums granted by banks or other financial institutions is to help with construction or improve on buildings meant for housing, the assignable or seizable portions provided for in the previous paragraph may, to reimburse debts incurred for this purpose, be increased to 1/3 for salaries lower than F62,880 and to half for salaries lower than F125,760. To calculate the amount to be deducted, the salary proper, all wage supplements, excluding however additional pay allowances and family-related bonuses and any allowance considered unseizeable under existing regulation, and sums allocated as reimbursement for expenses related to travels or hospitalisation shall have to be considered. Implementing Decree of the Labour Code Mali Hygiene and Safety (Pursuant to article L.170) Art.D.170-1.- Premises meant for personnel to work shall be permanently kept clean. The floor shall be thoroughly cleaned at least once every day. In institutions or sections or institutions where work does not go on uninterruptedly at day and at night, this cleaning shall be done before or after work, but never while work is going on. Cleaning shall be done through vacuuming, or any other process that does not raise dust, such as washing, brushing or wet clothes. The walls and ceilings shall be frequently cleaned. The walls of premises shall be coated or painted, using a light shade or whitewash, which will be redone as often as possible. Art.D.170-2.- In all the premises where organic materials are handled as well as in those where foam is handled or sorted, the floor shall be made impermeable and levelled; the walls shall be coated in such a way that it can be easily washed off . Walls and the floor shall be washed as often as necessary as well as leached at least once yearly using an disinfectant solution. Putrescible residue should not be in premises meant for work and shall be removed progressively unless they are kept in metal containers tightly closed, emptied and washed at least once every day. Art.D.170-3.- The air in workshops and in all other premises meant for work shall constantly be protected from smells rising from sewers, sewage pits or any other source of infection. Most especially, pipes for draining sewage or wash water, unwatering conduits for sewage pits that go through work premises shall be leak-tight. In institutions that empty sewage water or wash water into public or private sewers, any connection between the sewer and the institution shall have a hydraulic back pressure valve (siphon system). 15/29