Employment
Code du travail 2014 with a 40-hour week and mining-sector local content
Loi L/2014/072 sets a 40-hour week and regulates fixed-term contracts. The Mining Code layers local employment and training obligations on top, requiring progressive Guineanisation of skilled posts in mining operations.
Key rules
- Jurisdiction — Inspection du Travail conciliates; the Tribunal du travail decides.
- Deadline — CDD: maximum two years including renewal
- Deadline — Notice: by category, one to three months
- Deadline — Labour claim: two years
Governing law
- Loi L/2014/072/CNT du 10 janvier 2014 portant Code du travail
- Loi L/2011/006/CNT portant Code minierlocal content chapter
In practice
Guinea holds the world's largest bauxite reserves, and employment law in practice means mining employment law: the Mining Code's local-content schedule requires operators to reduce expatriate staffing over defined periods and to fund training, obligations enforced through the mining convention rather than the labour inspectorate. Community disputes over hiring in bauxite zones are a recurrent source of unrest.