Order 5 establishes that an employer shall not require a worker to work on holidays.
A worker who works on a holiday is entitled to double pay for that day, or to an
alternative holiday.
According to Order 6, for a worker who agree or, in exceptional circumstances, is
required to work for more than 60 hours per week or 12 per day, overtime is
payable.
Orders 7 and 19 stipulate that the employers who contravene or fail to comply with
the conditions of employment are guilty of an offence.
The Order also regulates rights such as annual, compassionate, and sick leaves,
unfitness for particular duties, maternity leave, minimum employment age and
maternity protection (Orders from 8 to 18).
Occupational Safety and Health Decree, 14/12/1978. Laws of Seychelles 1996.
The provisions of the Act has been updated through some modifications introduced
by the "Occupational Health and Safety Decree (Amendment) Act of 28/01/1999.
Under the title "Duties", part II the Decree regulates the following:
Section 4.1: "It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure, in accordance with the Decree and
any other written law, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees".
2: "…those duties include the provision and maintenance of plant and systems of work that are safe and without risks to
health;
arrangement for ensuring safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use, handling
storage and transport of articles and substances;
the provision of such information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure the
health and safety at work of his employees;
as regards any place of work under the employer control, the maintenance of it in a condition that is
safe and without risks;
the provision and maintenance of a working environment for his employees that is safe […]"
The provision of protective equipment for his employees and training them to use such equipment".
Section 6. Duties concerning premises.
Section 7. Duties of designers, manufacturers, importers and suppliers
Section 8: "It shall be the duty of every employee while at work -