Employment
Code du travail 2008 with a 40-hour week and works-council thresholds
Loi n° 028-2008 sets a 40-hour week, requires a délégué du personnel above 10 employees, and requires labour inspectorate authorisation for economic dismissals. CDDs are limited to two years including renewals.
Key rules
- Jurisdiction — Inspection du Travail conciliation is compulsory before the Tribunal du travail hears a claim.
- Deadline — CDD: maximum two years including renewals, then conversion to CDI
- Deadline — Economic dismissal: prior authorisation from the labour inspectorate
- Deadline — Claim to the Tribunal du travail: two years
Governing law
- Loi n° 028-2008/AN du 13 mai 2008 portant Code du travail
- Décret n° 2009-365 sur les délégués du personnel
- Convention collective interprofessionnelle 1974
In practice
The mining sector drives most contested employment litigation in Burkina Faso, where expatriate quotas, subcontracting chains and site closures interact with the Code's economic-dismissal authorisation requirement. The compulsory conciliation stage before the inspectorate is not a formality: a claim filed without it is inadmissible.