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Shifts, working hours and 24/7 operation under the Labor Code

Dossier
Manual: opening a garment factory13-manual-fabrica.md
Domain
Social security, work permits and shiftslaboral
Room
Talent/talento
Audited
not audited

The Labor Code sets the day shift at a maximum of 8 hours a day and 48 a week; the night shift at 6 hours and 36 a week; the mixed shift at 7 hours and 42 a week; overtime carries a 50% premium. The implication for plant design — an editorial inference by the dossier, not a citable figure — is that a 24/7 operation requires four crews or a structural overtime bill. The primary sources are in dossier 04 §10.

The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.

Figures

Jornada diurna máximadossier 04 §10
8 h/día, 48 h/semanaCódigo de Trabajo vigente
Jornada nocturna / mixtadossier 04 §10
6 h/36 h · 7 h/42 hCódigo de Trabajo vigente
Recargo hora extradossier 04 §10
+50%Código de Trabajo vigente

Caveat

Indirect citation via dossier 04; the 24/7 reading is an editorial inference

Sources

  • Código de Trabajo de Guatemala (Decreto 1441), jornadas — fuentes primarias citadas en el dossier 04 §10; este dossier no reproduce la URLNo site publishedconsulted

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