1997 Labour Code

Last updated May 08, 2025

The 1997Labour Code is a Sudanese law regulating employment. It replaced the Manpower Act of 1974.^[1]

It sets forth the organization of employment (including provisions for women and juveniles), contracts of service, wages, working hours and leave, termination of employment, after-service benefits, and miscellaneous other provisions.^[1] It also lists categories of persons who are exempt from the act, among them domestic servants, agricultural workers other than persons employed in establishments that process agricultural products, and casual workers.^[1]

References

1 2 3 DeLancey, Virginia (2015). "Wages" (PDF). In Berry, LaVerle (ed.). Sudan : a country study (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 168–169. ISBN 978-0-8444-0750-0. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . Though published in 2015, this work covers events in the whole of Sudan (including present-day South Sudan) until the 2011 secession of South Sudan.

External links

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[loc2015-1] 1 2 3 DeLancey, Virginia (2015). "Wages" (PDF). In Berry, LaVerle (ed.). Sudan : a country study (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 168–169. ISBN 978-0-8444-0750-0. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . Though published in 2015, this work covers events in the whole of Sudan (including present-day South Sudan) until the 2011 secession of South Sudan.

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