Employment
Code du travail 1992 with a 40-hour week and compulsory inspectorate conciliation
Loi n° 92-020 sets a 40-hour week, regulates fixed-term contracts and requires labour inspectorate conciliation before any judicial claim. Economic dismissals require prior notification to the inspectorate.
Key rules
- Jurisdiction — Inspection du Travail conciliates; the Tribunal du travail decides.
- Deadline — CDD: maximum two years including renewals
- Deadline — Notice: one to three months by category
- Deadline — Labour claim: two years from the disputed act
Governing law
- Loi n° 92-020 du 23 septembre 1992 portant Code du travail
- Convention collective interprofessionnelle
- Loi n° 2019-022 portant Code minierlocal content
In practice
Gold is Mali's dominant export and the mining code's local-content obligations shape skilled employment, requiring progressive replacement of expatriate staff. Artisanal gold mining employs far more people than industrial operations but sits largely outside the labour code, and child labour in that sector is a persistent enforcement failure.