Law No. 13/2023 approving the Law on Labour.

This Law defines the general principles and establishes the legal regime applicable to individual and collective relationships of subordinate work, provided for hire and for remuneration. It applies to legal relationships of subordinate employment established between employer and worker, national and foreign, from all fields of activity, who carry out their activity in the Country. This Law also applies to legal employment relationships established between public legal entities and their employees, who are not State employees or whose relationship is not regulated by specific legislation. The Law also applies to associations, non-governmental organizations, the cooperative sector, with regard to salaried workers, diplomatic and consular missions in relation to locally hired workers, international organizations and other natural or legal persons of Private Law. Workers are guaranteed equal rights at work, regardless of their ethnic origin, place of birth, language, color, race, sex, gender, marital status, age, within the limits established by law, social status, religious or political ideas. The female worker is guaranteed, during the period of pregnancy and after giving birth, the following rights: a) not to carry out, without reduction in remuneration, work that is clinically inadvisable due to her state of pregnancy; b) not perform night work or be transferred from their usual place of work, from the third month of pregnancy; c) interrupt daily work to breastfeed the child; d) not terminate the employment contract during pregnancy up to one year after the end of the leave.
The minimum age for admission to work is 18 years old. Exceptionally, the employer may admit a minor to work who has reached the age of 15, with the authorization of his or her legal representative. The employer must not employ minors in dangerous tasks or those that require great physical effort, defined by the competent authorities after consultation with trade unions and employers' organizations.