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[Paid family health leave laws 2022 - the Americas]

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Date	2022-01-01
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Zip preview	_ReadMe WORLD Paid Leave for Family Health Needs Policies 2022 Public Use Repository.txt Antigua and Barbuda_ReadMe.txt Argentina_ReadMe.txt Bahamas_2001_Employment Act.pdf Bahamas_2017_Amendment to Employment Act.pdf Barbados_ReadMe.txt Belize_ReadMe.txt Bolivia_2013_Supreme Decree No. 1455 which creates the benefit of Special License.pdf Brazil_1943_Labor Code (amended to Dec 2023).pdf Canada_1996_Employment Insurance Act (amended to 2021).pdf Canada_ReadMe.txt Chile_1978_Legal Decree on Subsidies for Work Incapacity (amended to 2011).pdf Chile_2003_Labor Code (amended to december 2023).pdf Chile_2017_Leave for childrens needs (amended to 2019).pdf Chile_2024_amendment to labor code.pdf Colombia_1950_Labor Code_amended to 2024.pdf Costa Rica_1998_Benefits for the Carers of Patients who are in the Final Stage of Life and Underage (amended to 2016).pdf Cuba_2021_Decree no 56 on Maternity and Family Responsibilities of Female Workers.pdf Dominica_ReadMe.txt Dominican Republic_1999_Labor Code.pdf Ecuador_2005_Codigo de Trabajo (amended to 2023).pdf El Salvador_1972_Codigo del Trabajo (amended to 2024).pdf Grenada_1999_Employment Act (amended to 2011).pdf Guatemala_ReadMe.txt Guyana_ReadMe.txt Haiti_ReadMe.txt Honduras_1959_Labor Code_amended to 2015.pdf Jamaica_ReadMe.txt Mexico_1995_Ley del Seguro Social (amended to 2021).pdf Nicaragua_1996_Codigo de Trabajo, amended thru 2003.pdf Panama_1971_Labor Law_amended through 1995.pdf Panama_2010_Amendment to Labor Code.pdf Panama_2010-2_Amendment to Labor Code.pdf Panama_2013_Amendment to Labor Code.pdf Panama_2017_Amendment to Labor Code.pdf Paraguay_ReadMe.txt Peru_2013_Law no. 30012 workers with family...serious disease or suffer terminal or serious accident.pdf Peru_2017_DECRETO SUPREMO 013-2017 QUE APRUEBA EL REGLAMENTO DE LA LEY Nº 30119.pdf Peru_2017_LEY QUE CONCEDE EL DERECHO DE LICENCIA AL TRABAJADOR DE LA ACTIVIDAD PUBLICA Y PRIVADA PARA LA ASISTENCIA MÉDICA Y LA TERAPIA DE REHABILITACION DE PERSONAS CON DISCAPACIDAD.pdf Saint Lucia_2006_Labour Code.pdf Saint Lucia_2011_Labor Code Amendment Act.pdf St. Kitts and Nevis_ReadMe.txt St. Vincent and the Grenadines_ReadMe.txt Suriname_ReadMe.txt Trinidad and Tobago_ReadMe.txt United States America_1993_Family Medical Leave Act (amended to 2020).pdf Uruguay_2018_Law which amends law 18.345 on workers with dependent children_N19729_sp.pdf Venezuela_2012_Ley Organica del Trabajo, los Trabajadores y las Trabajadoras.pdf

[family health leave laws 2022 - East Asia and the Pacific]

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Country	South Africa
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Contributor(s)	This is a zipped folder containing legislation related to family health leave for East Asia and the Pacific at 2022
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Zip preview	_ReadMe WORLD Paid Leave for Family Health Needs Policies 2022 Public Use Repository.txt Australia_2009_Fair Work Act (amended to 2021)_Part I.pdf Australia_2009_Fair Work Act (amended to 2021)_Part II.pdf Australia_Social Security Act (amended to 2021) Vol 1.pdf Australia_Social Security Act (amended to 2021) Vol 2.pdf Australia_Social Security Act (amended to 2021) Vol 3.pdf Australia_Social Security Act (amended to 2021) Vol 4.pdf Australia_Social Security Act (amended to 2021) Vol 5.pdf Cambodia_1997_Labor Law_eng.pdf Cambodia_1998_Prakas On Special Leave.pdf Cambodia_2007_Labor Law amendment.pdf Cambodia_2018_Labor Code Amendment.pdf Cambodia_2021_Amendment to Labor Law.pdf China_ReadMe.txt Fiji_2007_EmploymentRelationsLaw_36-2007.pdf Fiji_2015_Employment Relations Amendment.pdf Fiji_2016_Employment Relations Amendment.pdf Fiji_2017_Employment Relations Amendment.pdf Fiji_2018_Employment Relations Amendment.pdf Fiji_2023_Employment Relations (Amendment) Act.pdf Indonesia_ReadMe.txt Japan_1974_Employment Insurance Act_amended to 2002_N116.pdf Japan_1991_Welfare of Workers Who Take Care of Children or Other Family Members Icl. Child Care & Family Care Leave_76-1991.pdf Kiribati_2015_Emploment and Industrial Relations Act.pdf Kiribati_2017_An Act to Amend the Employment and Industrial Relations Code.pdf Korea, Democratic People's Republic of_ReadMe.txt Korea, Republic of_1987_Act on Equal Employment and Support for Work-Family Reconciliation (amended 2022).pdf Korea, Republic of_1988_Enforcement Decree of the Act on Equal Employment and Support for Work-Family Reconciliation (amended 2023).pdf Lao PDR_ReadMe.txt Malaysia_ReadMe.txt Marshall Islands_ReadMe.txt Micronesia_Federated States of_ReadMe.txt Mongolia_ReadMe.txt Nauru_ReadMe.txt New Zealand_2003_Holidays Act (amended to April 2022).pdf Palau_ReadMe.txt Papua New Guinea_ReadMe.txt Philippines, the_ReadMe.txt Samoa_ReadMe.txt Singapore_1968_Employment Act (amended to Jan 2021).pdf Solomon Islands_ReadMe.txt Thailand_1998_Labor Protection Act (amended to 2010).pdf Thailand_2017_Labor Protection Act No. 5.pdf Thailand_2017_Labor Protection Act No. 6.pdf Thailand_2019_Labor Protection Act No. 7.pdf Thailand_2023_Labor Protection Act No. 8 (amendment).pdf Timor-Leste_2012_Labour Code.pdf Tonga_ReadMe.txt Tuvalu_2017_Labour and Employment Relations Act.pdf Vanuatu_ReadMe.txt Vietnam_2014_Law on Social Insurance No. 58.pdf Vietnam_2019_Labor Code (effective January 2021).pdf

[family health leave laws 2022 - Europe and Central Asia]

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Country	South Africa
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Contributor(s)	This is a zipped folder containing legislation related to family health leave for Europe and Central Asia at 2022
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Zip preview	_ReadMe WORLD Paid Leave for Family Health Needs Policies 2022 Public Use Repository.txt Albania_1993_Social Security Act (amended to 2014).pdf Albania_1995_Labor Code (amended to 2015).pdf Albania_2008_Decree on implementation of social insurance act.pdf Andorra_2008_Social Security Code (amended to January 2022).pdf Andorra_2018_Labor Code.pdf Armenia_2004_Labor Code (amended to Jan 2021).pdf Armenia_2010_Law on Temporary Disability and Motherhood Benefits_amended to May 2021_ar.pdf Armenia_2013_Act on State Benefits (amended to 2015).pdf Austria_1955_General Social Insurance Law (amended to 2019).pdf Austria_1969_Working Time Act (amended to 2018).pdf Austria_1974_Law on the Continuation of Remuneration for Occupational Disease Prevention by Illness (amended to 2018).pdf Austria_1976_Annual Leave Act (amended to 2019).pdf Austria_1979_Maternity Protection Act (amended to 2019).pdf Austria_1983_Rest Periods Act (amended to 2019).pdf Austria_1989_Parental Leave for Fathers Act (amended to 2019).pdf Austria_1993_Employment Contracts Adaptation Act (amended to 2018).pdf Azerbaijan_1997_Social Insurance Law (amended to 2021).pdf Azerbaijan_1999_Labor Code (Amended to 2023).pdf Belarus_1999_Labour Code (amended to 2023).pdf Belarus_2012_Law No. 7-3 of 29 December 2012 on State Allowances for Families Raising Children (amended to 2021).pdf Belgium_1978_Law on Labor Contracts_amended to 2019.pdf Belgium_1991_Modalities of leave for important reasons_Royal Decree 11.10.1991.pdf Belgium_2012_Royal decree on introduction of a right to parental leave (...).pdf Bosnia & Herzegovina_2015_Rep Srpska_Labor Code (amended to 2024).pdf Bosnia & Herzegovina_District Brcko_2019_Labor Code (amended to 2025).pdf Bosnia & Herzegovina_Federation BiH_2016_Labor Code (amended to 2024).pdf Bosnia and Herzegovina_ReadMe.txt Bulgaria_1987_Labor Code (amended to Dec 2023).pdf Bulgaria_1999_Social Insurance Code (amended to March 2022).pdf Croatia_1995_Labor Act (amended to 2023).pdf Croatia_2008_Maternity Protection Law (amended to 2017).pdf Cyprus_2012_Parental Leave and Leave on Grounds of Force Majeure Law.pdf Czechia_2006_Act on Sickness Insurance (amended to 2022).pdf Czechia_2006_Labor Code (amended to 2023).pdf Denmark_2006_Act on equal treatment of men and women in employment (amended to 2024).pdf Denmark_2009_Consolidation Act on Entitlement to Leave and Benefits in the Event of Childbirth_Consolidation Act 1048-2009.pdf Denmark_2018_Social Service Act (amended to 2025).pdf Denmark_2019_LBK no. 67 of 2019 (Consolidated Right to Leave and Subsistence in Maternity Act)_amended to 2018.pdf Estonia_2002_Health Insurance Act (amended to 2022).pdf Estonia_2008_Employment Contracts Act (amended to 2024).pdf Finland_2001_Employment Contracts Act (amended to 2023).pdf Finland_2004_Health Insurance Act (Sairausvakuutuslaki) (amended to 2022).pdf Finland_ReadMe.txt France_1910_Code du Travail (amended to 2023).pdf France_2025_Consolidated Social Security Code.pdf France_ReadMe.txt Georgia_2010_Labor Code (amended to Nov 2023).pdf Germany_1988_Social Code Book V (amended to 2025).pdf Germany_2008_The Care Act (as amended to 2024).pdf Germany_2011_Act on Family Care Leave (amended to 2022).pdf Greece_2021_Law for the Protection of Labor (amended to Dec 2023).pdf Greenland_ReadMe.txt Hungary_2012_Labor Code (amended to 2025).pdf Iceland_2006_Act on Payments to Parents of Chronically Ill or Severely Disabled Children (amended to 2015).pdf Iceland_2013_Labour Law Summary.pdf Ireland_1998_Parental Leave Act (amended to 2019)_N30.pdf Ireland_2001_Carers Leave Act as amended to 2020.pdf Ireland_2006_Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act (amended to 2018)_N5.pdf Ireland_2021_Social Welfare Act.pdf Ireland_ReadMe.txt Italy_2001_Decree n.151 to support paternity and maternity (amended to 2022).pdf Kazakhstan_2015_Labor Code (amended 2024).pdf Kyrgyzstan_2004_Labor Code (amended to 2022).pdf Kyrgyzstan_2018_Regulations on the procedure for granting benefits for temporary disability, benefits for pregnancy and childbirth (amended to 2024).pdf Latvia_1995_Law on Maternity & Sickness_amended to 2022.pdf Latvia_2002_Labor Law (amended to 2022).pdf Liechtenstein_1811_General Civil Code (amended to June 2023).pdf Lithuania_2000_Law on Sickness and Maternity Insurance (2025 consolidation).pdf Lithuania_2016_Labour Code (amended 2024).pdf Luxembourg_2007_Labor Code (amended to 2021).pdf Luxembourg_2022_Social Security Code Consolidated.pdf Malta_2003_Parental Leave Entitlement Regulations (amended to 2011).pdf Malta_2003_Urgent Family Leave Regulations (amended by Legal Notice 427-2007).pdf Moldova_2003_Labor Code (amended 2024).pdf Moldova_2004_Law regarding allowances for temporary work incapacity and other social security benefits (amended to 2025).pdf Monaco_1977_Loi n. 994 du 05.01.1977 relative à la suspension ou la résiliation du contrat de travail en cas de maladie d'un enfant à charge.pdf Montenegro_2019_Labor Law_as amended to June 2021.pdf Netherlands_2001_Work and Care Act (amended to 2025).pdf North Macedonia_2005_Labor Code (amended to 2015).pdf North Macedonia_2018_Amendment to the Labor Relations Act of 2005).pdf North Macedonia_2019_Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Labor Relations.pdf North Macedonia_2020_Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Labor Relations.pdf North Macedonia_2021a_Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Labor Relations.pdf North Macedonia_2021b_Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Labor Relations.pdf North Macedonia_2023_Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Labor Relations.pdf Norway_1997_National Insurance Act (amended to 2025).pdf Norway_2005_Working Environment Act (in force Jan 2024).pdf Poland_1974_Labor Code (amended to 2023).pdf Poland_1999_Act for Insurance for Illness and Maternity (amended to 2022).pdf Portugal_2009_Decreto Lei 91 2009, Regime juridico de proteccao social na parentalidade no ambito do sistema previdencial e no subsistema de solidariedade.pdf Portugal_2009_Labor Code (amended to 2023).pdf Portugal_ReadMe.txt Romania_2003_Labour Code (amended 2023).pdf Romania_2005_Emergency Ordinance on Social Health Insurance Leaves, No. 158 of 2005, amended to 2022.pdf Romania_2014_LAW no. 91 of 1 July 2014 on the granting of a free work day per year for child health care.pdf Russia_2001_Labor Code (amended to 2023).pdf Russia_2006_Law on Compulsory Social Insurance for Temporary Disability and Cases Related to Maternity (amended to 2023).pdf San Marino_2003 Law on support of family and parenting.pdf San Marino_2014_Amendments to 2003 Law on support of family and parenting.pdf San Marino_2018_Amendment to 2003_Law on support of family and parenting_n117.pdf San Marino_2018_Law on support of family and parenting (amended to 2019)_n117.pdf San Marino_2019 Decree integrating and addition to Law on support of families_N47.pdf San Marino_2019_Decreto dei integrazione e ampliamento degli interventi a sostegno della famiglia_N47.pdf Serbia_2002_Rulebook - absence from work for child special nursing purposes.pdf Serbia_2005_Labor Code (amended to 2018).pdf Slovakia_2001_Labor Code (amended 2024).pdf Slovakia_2003_Act on Social Insurance (amended to March 2022).pdf Slovenia_1992_Health Care and Health Insurance Act_as amended to 2025.pdf Slovenia_2013_Employment Relations Act (amended 2023).pdf Slovenia_2014_Parental Protection and Family Benefit Act (amended to 2021).pdf Slovenia_2014_Parental Protection and Family Benefit Act (amended to 2025).pdf Spain_1994_Ley General de la Seguridad Social (amended to December 2021)_N8.pdf Spain_2015_Ley del Estatuto de los Trabajadores (amended 2024).pdf Sweden_1988_Act on Leave for Family Care_as amended to 2022.pdf Sweden_2010_Social Insurance Law (amended to 2022)_n110.pdf Switzerland_1952_Loi fédérale sur les allocations pour perte de gain en cas de service et de maternité (amended to 2025).pdf Switzerland_1964_Loi federale sur le travail dans l'industrie, l'artisanat et le commerce (amended to 2023).pdf Tajikistan_1997_On Social Security (amended to 2021).pdf Tajikistan_2014_About the Terms and Conditions of Payment forTemp asst Maternity and Family Benefits.pdf Tajikistan_2016_Labor Code (amended 2022).pdf Turkey_2003_Labor Code (amended 2024).pdf Turkmenistan_2009_Labor Code (amended 2023).pdf Turkmenistan_2012_Code of Social Protection of the Population (amended to 2022).pdf Ukraine_1971_Labor Code (amended to 2023).pdf Ukraine_1996-2019_Law on vacations (amended to 2022).pdf Ukraine_1999_Law about Mandatory State Social Insurance_as amended to 2022.pdf Uzbekistan_1995_Labor Code (amended to 2022).pdf Uzbekistan_2002_Regulation (...) on payment of state social insurance benefits (amended to 2021)_rus.pdf

[family health leave laws 2022 - Middle East and North Africa]

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Country	South Africa
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Contributor(s)	This is a zipped folder containing legislation related to family health leave for the MENA region at 2022
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Zip preview	_ReadMe WORLD Paid Leave for Family Health Needs Policies 2022 Public Use Repository.txt Algeria_ReadMe.txt Bahrain_1976_Act on Social Insurance (amended to 2010).pdf Bahrain_2012_Labor Law.pdf Bahrain_2015_Amendment to Labor Law.pdf Bahrain_2018_Amendment to Labor Law.pdf Djibouti_2009_Labour code.pdf Djibouti_2011_Labor Code amendment.pdf Djibouti_2018_Labor Code amendment.pdf Djibouti_2020_Labor Code amendment.pdf Egypt_2003_Labor Law.pdf Iran, Islamic Republic of_ReadMe.txt Iraq_2015_Labor Law.pdf Israel_1976_Sick Pay Law_5736-1976.pdf Israel_1993_Sick Pay (Absence because of a child's sickness) Law_5753-1993.pdf Israel_1993_Sick Pay (Absence Because of Parent's Sickness).pdf Israel_1993_Sick pay child health (amended to 2016).pdf Israel_1998_Sick Pay (Absence because of spouse's sickness).pdf Israel_2015_Amendment on Child health sick leave.pdf Jordan_ReadMe.txt Kuwait_2011_Special leave for working mother who accompanies her sick child to the hospital_Order 7-2011.pdf Lebanon_ReadMe.txt Libya_2010_Labor Relations Act_Act 12-2010.pdf Libya_2016_Law Amending Labour Relations Law No. 12 of 2010_n13.pdf Morocco_2003_Labor Code (amended 2011).pdf Oman_2003_Labor Law_Decree.pdf Oman_2011_Amendment Labor Code 2003.pdf Oman_2011_Order No. 657 Regulating the urgent leave entitlement.pdf Qatar_ReadMe.txt Saudi Arabia_ReadMe.txt Syria_2010_Labor Law_Law 17-2010.pdf Syria_2014_Law Amending Labor Law No. 17 of 2010.pdf Tunisia_ReadMe.txt United Arab Emirates_ReadMe.txt Yemen_1995_Labor Code.pdf

[family health leave laws 2022 - South Asia]]

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Country	South Africa
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Contributor(s)	This is a zipped folder containing legislation related to family health leave for South Asia at 2022
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Zip preview	_ReadMe WORLD Paid Leave for Family Health Needs Policies 2022 Public Use Repository.txt Afghanistan_2007_Labor Code.pdf Bangladesh_2006_Labor Code (amended to 2018).pdf Bhutan_2022_Regulations on Working Conditions.pdf India_ReadMe.txt Maldives_2006_Employment Regulation.pdf Maldives_2008_Employment Act (amended to 2022).pdf Nepal_ReadMe.txt Pakistan_ReadMe.txt Sri Lanka_ReadMe.txt

[family health leave laws 2022 - sub-Saharn Africa]]

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Country	South Africa
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Contributor(s)	This is a zipped folder containing legislation related to family health leave for sub-Saharan countries at 2022
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Zip preview	_ReadMe WORLD Paid Leave for Family Health Needs Policies 2022 Public Use Repository.txt Angola_2015_Lei Geral do Trabalho.pdf Benin_1998_Labor Code.pdf Botswana_ReadMe.txt Burkina Faso_2008_Labor Code.pdf Burundi_ReadMe.txt Cabo Verde_2007_Codigo Laboral (amended to 2016).pdf Cameroun_1992_Labor Code.pdf Central African Republic_2009_Labor Code_Law 09-004.pdf Chad_1996_Labor Code.pdf Comoros_1984_Labor Code (amended to 2012).pdf Congo, Democratic Republic of the_ReadMe.txt Congo, Republic of_1975_Labor Code (amended to 1996).pdf Cote d'Ivoire_ReadMe.txt Equatorial Guinea_ReadMe.txt Eritrea_2001_Labor Proclamation.pdf Eswatini_ReadMe.txt Ethiopia_2019_Labour Proclamation.pdf Gabon_2021_Labor Code.pdf Gambia, the_ReadMe.txt Ghana_ReadMe.txt Guinea_2014_Code du travail.pdf Guinea-Bissau_1986_Labor Code.pdf Guinea-Bissau_2022_Labor Code.pdf Kenya_ReadMe.txt Lesotho_ReadMe.txt Liberia_2015_Decent Work Act.pdf Madagascar_2003_Labor Code_Law 2003-044.pdf Malawi_ReadMe.txt Mali_1992_Code du travail (amended through 2011).pdf Mali_2017_Loi n° 2017-021 portant modification de Code du travail.pdf Mali_2019_Loi n° 2019-074 portant modification de la loi n 92-020 du 23 septembre 1992 modifiee, portant Code du travail.pdf Mali_2022_Loi n° 2022-005 du 20 mai 2022 portant modification de la loi n° 92-020 du 23 septembre 1992 portant Code du travail en République du Mali.pdf Mauritania_1974_Collective Agreement.pdf Mauritania_2004_Labor Code_Law 2004-017_fr.pdf Mauritania_2009_Labor code amendment.pdf Mauritania_2022_Labor code amendment.pdf Mauritius_ReadMe.txt Mozambique_2007_Lei do Trabalho.pdf Mozambique_2017_Decree 51-2017.pdf Namibia_2007_Labour Act (amended 2022).pdf Niger_ReadMe.txt Nigeria_ReadMe.txt Rwanda_ReadMe.txt Sao Tome & Principe_2014_DECRETO-LEI 25, Amends, Expands 2004 law.pdf Sao Tome and Principe_2019_Law approving the Labor Code.pdf Senegal_1997_Labor Code (amended 2022).pdf Seychelles_1991_Conditions of Employment Regulations (as amended to 2006).pdf Sierra Leone_2002_The Regulation of Wages and Industrial Relations Act.pdf Sierra Leone_2010_Update to The Regulation of Wages and Industrial Relations Act.pdf Somalia_ReadMe.txt South Africa_1997_Basic Conditions of Employment.pdf South Africa_2013_Basic Conditions of Employment Amendment Act.pdf South Africa_2014_Basic Conditions of Employment Amendment Act.pdf South Africa_2014_Basic Conditions of Employment Regulations Amendment.pdf South Africa_2018_Amendments to Basic Conditions of Employment.pdf South Africa_2020_Basic Conditions of Employment Amendment Act.pdf South Sudan_2017_Labour Law.pdf Sudan, the_ReadMe.txt Tanzania_2004_Employment and Labour Relations Act (revised 2019 edition).pdf Togo_2020_Code du Travail.pdf Togo_2021_Loi n° 2022-019 du 15 novembre 2022 portant modification de la loi n° 2021-012 portant Code du travail.pdf Uganda_ReadMe.txt Zambia_2019_Employment Code Act.pdf Zimbabwe_ReadMe.txt

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