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     Combining labour properly with rest and protecting labour of working people is inherent requirement of the DPRK’s socialist system where man is regarded as the most precious being. It is stipulated fully in the Socialist Labor Law.

     The DPRK provides the working people with enough rest so that they can renew their energy wasted in their labour through the eight-hour working system, through the paid holiday system and recuperation and relaxation systems at the state expense and through the increasing cultural facilities of various kinds.

     Working day is eight hours and overtime work is prohibited by the law. Working hours are 7 or 6 according to hardness and specific condition of labour, and female workers with more than 3 children work 6 hours a day.

     The working people have rest on national holidays and Sundays instituted by the state, and if they work on a holiday for some reason, they can have one-day off within the following week.

     All working people have 14 regular holidays. They have 7 to 21 additional holidays according to kinds of their job(heat-affected, harmful and other difficult and hard labour), and the female workers are provided with maternity leave irrespective of length of their service in addition to regular and additional holidays.

     Various forms of sanatoria and holiday homes are built and their facilities modernized, and tourism is promoted so as to satisfy the people’s increasing demand for cultural recreation. In particular, national organs and enterprises concerned run holiday homes properly, so that their working people can enjoy recreation while working.