- In especially injurious trades, and in the case of adolescents who are going to land colonies, a supplementary holiday of a fortnight is given.
(b) Protection of women’s labour and child labour.
- As a rule, women must not work at night and must not work overtime. They may not be hired by the job.
- Children under sixteen may not be engaged in industry. They are gradually being removed from the industrial field (in the first instance from all injurious trades); those who are withdrawn from industry are given material support and are sent to school.
- Children under sixteen who still remain at work are employed for only 4 hours daily; young people from sixteen to eighteen have a working day of 6 hours.
- Overtime, night work, and jobbing work, are prohibited in the case of all persons under the age of eighteen.
For the protection of motherhood, the following laws have been promulgated:
- In pregnancy and childbirth all women, whether women actually engaged in industry or the wives of workers, receive an allowance throughout the period in which work is discontinued on account of pregnancy and childbirth. This allowance is equivalent to a full working wage.
- Pregnant women engaged in physical work receive this allowance for eight weeks before delivery; mental workers and office employees receive it for six weeks before delivery.