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Working time schedules
. In addition to limiting the length of working hours, the 
framing standards specifically regulate certain dimensions of working time 
schedules. The historically discriminatory treatment of part-time workers is 
recognized in a confirmation that the workers are entitled to the full range of rights 
contained in the Model Law. Equal treatment with comparable full-time workers, 
required by the Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175), is also addressed, 
albeit in the assumption that this right is elaborated in more detail in a separate 
anti-discrimination measure. To prevent very short hours, domestic workers must 
be compensated when they report for work to find there is no work available or 
that they are expected to work for less than two hours. A prohibition on the hiring 
of domestic workers on an ―as and when required‖ (or ―casual‖) basis to ensure 
that individual workers can be certain of their schedules in advance and are not 
subject to the precarious income these arrangements generally entail. The risk of 
fragmentation of the working day is addressed by providing incentives to arrange 
working hours continuously. The Model Law identifies a ―span‖ of nine hours 
over which a worker‘s daily hours can be scheduled. Those whose hours are 
scheduled beyond the nine-hour span are subject to a normal day of seven hours, 
although he or she can elect to work eight-hour days and be compensated by 
additional annual leave. These provisions are accompanied by an absolute limit on 
the daily span of 13 hours.
 
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Rest breaks
. To ensure adequate periods of rest within the frame of the working 
day, a rest break of at least one hour is to be taken in any period of work of at least 
five hours. This entitlement is drawn from the South African Sectoral 
Determination 7.
 
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