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This is one of the notable contents of Circular No. 56/2026/TT-BXD dated July 6, 2026, on working time and rest time for workers performing jobs of special characteristics at sea in the provision of public non-business services for maritime safety assurance.
Under Article 4 of Circular No. 56/2026/TT-BXD, working time for workers performing jobs of special characteristics at sea in the provision of public non-business services for maritime safety assurance shall be arranged in work shifts of not more than 06 hours per day.
The subjects of application include workers performing the following jobs:
- Operation and maintenance of isolated lighthouses, isolated danger marks, and cardinal marks;
- General inspection and maintenance of marine aids to navigation;
- Routine inspection of dikes and revetments along navigational channels;
- Painting and maintenance of marine aids to navigation on navigational channels (buoys and beacon marks); replacement, deployment, adjustment, and retrieval of marine navigational buoys on navigational channels;
- Provisioning of lighthouse stations and navigational channel management stations.
Besides limiting working time per work shift, the Circular also provides that the number of overtime hours of a worker must not exceed 50% of the number of working hours in a work shift in one day, and the total number of overtime hours must not exceed 300 hours in one year. The organization of overtime work must be agreed upon by workers.
In addition, under Clause 1, Article 6 of Circular No. 56/2026/TT-BXD, after each working shift, a worker is entitled to a rest of at least 12 consecutive hours before starting a new working shift.
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