Syria

Requires written employment contracts (Art. 47), limits effective working time to eight hours a day and forty a week (Art. 106), and bars dismissal for lodging a complaint or taking part in proceedings against the employer (Art. 67(a)(3)). Art. 147 lets labour inspectors stop work in mines and quarries in cases of imminent danger. Adopted 25 March 2010 and promulgated 12 April 2010; repeals Law No. 91 of 1959.