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class=\"column\">\n\n                    <p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Article 85 of Madagascar\u2019s Labor Code (Law No. 2003-44 of 28 July 2004) forbids the employment of women in night work except in family establishments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Country:<\/strong>\u00a0Madagascar<\/li>\n<li><strong>Law status:\u00a0<\/strong>Discriminatory law in force<\/li>\n<li><strong>Law Type:\u00a0<\/strong>Employment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Article 85 of Madagascar\u2019s Labor Code (Law No. 2003-44 of 28 July 2004) forbids the employment of women in night work except in family establishments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Article 85.\u00a0\u00a0<em>. . .\u00a0<strong>Women, regardless of age, shall not be employed at night <\/strong>in any industrial establishment of any kind, public or private, secular or religious, nor in any annex of one of these establishments even if these establishments 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