www.Droit-Afrique.com per day of work from the salary of workers as reimbursement or benefit. Art.D.96-2-13.- Unless agreed upon beforehand by the parties, the employer shall not be obliged to provide daily food rations when the salary itself is not due or the allowances, provided for by existing legislation in the instances of contract suspension enumerated in article L.34 of the Labour Code, are not due. Art.D.96-2-14.- When the ration is provided for a fee, the worker can always give it up, on the condition that he/she informs his/her employer in writing at least one month beforehand. Art.D.96-3-1.- Pursuant to article L.96 paragraph 3 of the Labour Code, employers shall have to provide foodstuff, other than those provided for in the obligatory ration section, for workers whose standard living conditions and feeding habits require basic foodstuff, which they cannot get for themselves using their own resources . In these conditions, workers of all categories and, when the clauses of the contract provide that workers be accompanied by their family, the families of these workers, shall benefit from the provision of foodstuff. Art.D.96-3-2.- However, the obligation provided for in the previous article shall not apply to employers who give their workers their own resources to enable them regularly get supplies. Art.D.96-3-3.- The nature and maximum redemption value for the basic foodstuff referred to in article D.96-3-1 shall be set through mutual agreement or, failing this, by a decision from the competent labour inspector. Art.D.96-3-4.- In any farm plantation where the available acreage permits it, the employer must, at the request of workers, make available to them, farm land, which will be distributed by it on the basis of one acre at least per worker. The employer shall also have to give each worker seeds and the instruments necessary for farming. Mali Workers shall have to put to good use the land that has been given to them, otherwise all the benefits that have been granted for this purpose will be withdrawn on the condition that the employer informs the competent labour inspector about this decision. Privileges and Guarantees of Wage Claims (Pursuant to article L.117) Art.D.117-1.- A worker who holds an object wrought by him/her may, pursuant to article L.117 of the Labour Code, exercise retaining rights in the forms and conditions defined herein after Art.D.117-2.- Objects entrusted to a worker to be worked upon, shaped, repaired or cleaned and which would not have been collected within a period of one year, could be sold, provided the forms and conditions spelt out in this article are complied with. Workers shall have to send to the client, through registered mail or transmission log, a dated and signed notice for payment. If, within a period of 8 days, the postal stamp or the transmission date being authoritative, the client has not paid the sums owe, the professional, wishing to use the ability to sell the wrought object, shall present to the court of his/her place of residence, a claim that will spell out the facts and state for each of the objects the receipt date, name, the price claimed, the name of the owner and the place where the object was given to the worker. The judge's ruling, placed below the claim and handed down after the owner would have been heard or called, if no other order is given, shall set the day, time and place of the sale, shall appoint a state official who has to carry out the sale and will contain, where necessary, the appraisal of the claimant's claim. Art.D.117-3.- The retaining right shall relate only to the object even if the worker has just worked on it and for a sum owed on the basis of the work. A worker may not in any way retain objects he/she has worked on so that he/she can be paid the balance for past works done on other objects. Art.D.117-4.- The retaining right may be exercised only by craftwork professionals. Professionals Implementing Decree of the Labour Code 14/29