1. A private and cooperative business undertaking employing 5 workers and above has to notify the Township Labour Office of his intention to recruit workers in the prescribed form.

2. The Labour Office will prepare a list of candidates who meet the requirements mentioned in the form and send these candidates to the employer.

3. The employer is to select the most suitable person from among the candidates submitted by the Labour Office.

Wages and Salaries

Wages and salaries of workers in the private enterprise are usually fixed on mutual agreement between the employers and the workers. At present, the minimum daily wage for an unskilled worker in the State sector is K 20. There are variations in wage scales according to the type of skill.

Working Hours

(a)	At shops, companies, trading centres, services enterprises, entertainment houses	8 hrs a day 48 hrs a week
(b)	In factories, oil fields and mines	8 hrs a day 44 hrs a week
(c)	Factories engaged in continuous process	48 hrs a week
(d)	In underground mines	8 hrs a day 40 hrs a week

Leaves and Holidays

1. In a privately owned business undertaking : 6 days casual leave, 30 days medical leave and 10 days earned leave and 21 public holidays in a year with wages.

2. In private enterprises covered by the Social Security Act, 1954, women workers can enjoy maternity leave with wages in addition to the leaves and holidays mentioned above.

Social Security Benefits

Private enterprises employing more than five workers are covered by the Social Security Act, 1954. Contributions to the schemes are to be made according to ten categories of income group of the employees. The employer contributes 2 per cent of the insured wages of the employees. The workers insured under the Act are entitled, apart from free medical care, to cash sickness benefit, cash maternity benefit, funeral grants, temporary disability benefit, permanent disability benefit and survivors' pension.

If a worker who is not insured with the Social Security Scheme suffers work injury and causing temporary or permanent disability or death in case of accidents arising out of and in the course of employment, the employer is liable to pay compensation for that worker according to the Workmen's Compensation Act.

A systematic and effective machinery has been established under the Ministry of Labour for settlement of trade disputes. There are also ways and means for preliminary negotiation and conciliation at the township level.

The Department of Labour can help the foreign enterprises in scrutinising the Work Rules and Employment Contracts so that they may be in conformity with the provision of the existing Myanmar's Labour Law.