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Occupational doctor in Mali: what the employer must organise, and what it must do with it
Every Malian employer must provide a medical service for its employees, by joining the inter-company medical centre set up by the INPS in its locality. The pre-employment visit takes place before the end of probation, the periodic visit at least once a year, and the return-to-work visit after more than three weeks off. The employer must take the occupational doctor's opinions into consideration. Every occupational accident must be reported within 48 hours.
Occupational illness or accident: the employer's obligations
Following a workplace accident or occupational disease, the employer must give immediate aid and report to the INPS within 48 hours, failing which it bears the cost of compensation itself. The INPS compensates the victim throughout the incapacity, without the six-month limit applying to non-occupational conditions.
Old-age retirement in Mali
The retirement pension requires thirteen years of contributions and age 53 (Social Security Code, art. 143); it is due without reduction at 58, or from 55 completed years (art. 144). It equals 2% of average pay over the last eight years per year contributed. In the private sector, the contract ends at 58 (categories B to E) or 60 (category A), with a retirement payment calculated like severance pay (Labour Code, art. L.60 and L.55).
Open‑ended contract (CDI): probation period, changes, and termination
This article explains the rules governing probation, substantial changes to an open-ended employment contract and their formalisation through an amendment in Mali. It outlines employees' rights when refusing a change and the requirements applicable to the different routes to termination.
Outsourcing payroll: partly or fully?
Outsourcing payroll is not a binary choice but a question of scope: one-off assistance, partial or full outsourcing, depending on the difficulty actually encountered. HR decisions and statutory deadlines stay with the employer, and reversibility, with full return of the data, is the central clause to negotiate. …
Overtime: the legal framework, from authorisation to payslip
Overtime: five rates by time and day, and a bonus never replaces the premium.
Overtime: the manual calculation in four steps
Working out overtime by hand: four steps, and the classic error not to make.
Paid annual leave
Paid leave accrues at 2.5 days per month, giving 30 days a year, and may be taken after twelve months of effective service, with a minimum of fifteen continuous days. No payment may replace leave during the contract, and extra days are added at 15, 20 and 25 years of service.
Paid leave: accumulated untaken leave
The text limits the length of the carry-over; it provides for no sanction and mentions neither loss nor forfeiture.
Part-time
Malian labour law does regulate part-time work: 32 hours a week at most, a written contract, the staff delegates' opinion and notice to the labour inspector. Pay, bonuses and contributions are proportional; the thirty days of annual leave and the headcount thresholds are not. Only a fixed-term contract made for extra workload carries the 2.5% end-of-contract payment.
Paying by the task or by the piece: is it allowed? Yes, on three conditions
Task-based or piece-rate pay is allowed if the collective agreement provides for it (L.98). The rate must guarantee an average employee at least the pay of a time-paid worker. Rates are displayed (L.99), and for jobs lasting over a fortnight, 90% advances are paid every fortnight (L.103). Otherwise: fines (L.319) and three years of back-pay claims.
Payroll and administrative outsourcing: what the service covers
The service covers the full payroll chain, from processing variables to filing declarations, and HR administration: registrations, leave, workplace accidents and expatriates. Reversibility must be total, and employer status is never transferred: decisions, legal responsibility and keeping the registers stay with the company.
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