Regulating the Employment of Children and Women in Industrial Work

Type

Law

Date of the text

17/04/1935

Official Gazette

published in 1935

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

24

What it provides

This law regulates the employment of minors and women in factories, mines, quarries and workshops, bans employing children under thirteen, limits working hours and rest breaks for those aged thirteen to sixteen, and excludes agriculture, commercial shops and family-run factories.

What has changed this text

• Amended by Decision No. 112/1935 of 17/05/1935, articles 1
• Amended by Decree-Law No. 193/1942 of 24/06/1942

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1935. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.