Mali www.Droi tAfrique.comb Art.A.131.1.-Within the limit of 2352 hours per year, weekly working hours in farming businesses shall be set based on seasons as follows: • heat season : from March to June = 42 hours ; • rainy season : from July to October = 46 hours ; • cold season from November to February = 48 hours. Art.A.131.2.- Institutions or parts of institutions subject to the forty-hour week must choose one of the following modes herein after : • work on a rotating schedule with the possibility to rotate in months with weeks of over 40 hours and weeks of less than 40 hours; • shift work with successive teams; • work on a personalised schedule such that a worker gets greater flexibility to arrange his/her work schedule; • part-time work involving no lower limit; • job sharing that makes it possible to divide a full time job into two part time jobs. Art.A.133.1.- The employment contract of parttime workers must be attested to in writing. It must state the number of days in the year, the month or the week, or the number of hours in the day which, in any case, cannot be longer than 4/5th of the legal duration. Art.A.133.2.- A part-time employment contract shall be considered to have been concluded for an unspecified duration if its duration is not specified. Art.A.133.3.- A part-time worker shall receive the same wage and wage supplements as a full-time worker as well as all the benefits tied to his/her contract type, such that these benefits are proportionate to the services provided. Art.A.133.4.- Part-time workers shall have the right to organise, bargain collectively and be represented as well as the right to safety and health at work. They shall not be subjected to any kind of discrimination in matters of employment and profession. Art.A.133.5.- Social security contributions, paid for part-time workers and all other payments deducted at the same time as these contributions, shall be proportionate to the hours and days of actual work done. Art.A.133.6.- Part-time workers shall benefit from legal and agreement-based provisions relating to maternity protection, the termination of the employment relationship, annual leave, public holidays and sick leave. However, financial benefits shall be proportionate to the duration of employment and remuneration. Section 2 - Making Up for Lost Time Art.A.134-1.- In case work is collectively interrupted due to accidental causes or force majeure (equipment breakdown, power outage, shortage of raw materials, means of transportation, disaster, transport, bad weather), excluding hours lost following a strike action or lock-out, working days may be extended, in order to make up for the hours lost. Art.A.134-2.- These hours may be recovered in the following manner : • within the week or the following week when half a day or a full day has to be recovered; • within the week or the following two weeks when two days have to be recovered; • within the week or the following three weeks when three days have to be recovered; • within the week or the following four weeks when four or more days have to be recovered. Art.A.134-3.- In case work is interrupted for over a week, recovery shall take place over a longer period than as stated in the limits spelt out herein above only as authorised by the labour inspector, after the associations of the relevant employers and employees have been consulted. Art.A.134-4.- Recovering collective interruptions of work caused by accidents or force majeure may not result in the extension by more than one hour of the daily working hours. Art.A.134-5.- In breweries and artificial ice manufacturing plants, the recovery of working hours lost during the off season may be authorised by the labour inspector, after the relevant employer and employee associations have been consulted, Implementing Decree of the Labour Code 4/11