Close to a half of the respondents of this survey reported being employed in a salaried job (46.0%), with 47.6% reporting that they were unemployed. Out of the employed, 75.8% were male and 29.9% female. Table 79: In paid employment Paid employment % Yes 45.96% No 47.59% RF 0.64% Don’t Know 5.81% The sectors of employment can be seen below: Table 80: Employment by sector, by local/foreign Local Foreign Total Civil Service 14.55% - 13.23% Public Enterprise 7.58% 8.25% 7.64% Private Enterprise 11.17% 76.29% 17.05% National Security Service 1.13% - 1.03% Private house/own home or property 3.07% 2.06% 2.98% Private place such as shop, tuition class etc 1.02% - 0.93% Others 2.56% 1.03% 2.42% RF 3.18% 1.03% 2.98% DK/NA 55.74% 11.34% 51.72% Out of the 16% who were employed in more than one job, 19.0% were men and 12.0% were women. According to clause 32(a) of the Employment Act(No:2/2008), ‘No employee shall be required to work more than forty‐ eight hours a week’15. The 2005 and 2011 The “Rights” Side of Life Surveys highlighted that Maldivians work for long hours. 20.0% people worked for more than 12 hours in a day in 2005, and 16.6% worked for more than 12 hours in 2011. The number of people working for more than 12 hours seems to have decreased considerably to 7.5% in 2019. Out of the respondents 14.9% of the people said they were working an average of 9-10 hours. Most people (61.2%) reported working for 4-8 hours a day. Most migrant workers (58.8%) also reported working for 4- 8 hours a day. 15 60 http://agoffice.gov.mv/pdf/sublawe/Employment.pdf Table 81:No of working hours, by local/foreign No.of Hours Local Foreign Total less than 4 hrs 5.23% 22.35% 4.41% 4 – 8 hrs 61.66% 58.82% 61.21% 9 – 10 hrs 13.51% 100.00% 14.89% 11 – 12 hrs 6.32% 14.12% 7.54% 12 + 8.06% 4.71% 7.54% RF 5.23% 0.00% 4.41% No of Hours Male Female Total 11 – 12 hrs 5.70% 1.65% 7.54% 12 + hrs 4.78% 2.57% 7.54% 4 – 8 hrs 32.9% 28.13% 61.21% less than 4 0.37% 4.04% 4.41% 9 – 10 hrs 9.38% 5.33% 14.89% RF 0.74% 3.68% 4.41% Grand Total 53.86% 45.40% 100.00% In line with the observation in the 2011 survey, close to one third of people work for more than 27 days in a month. This means many get little time off from work in the Maldives. In 2005, 50.0% of people worked for more than 27 days a month which dropped to 37.9% in 2011. Further improvement was seen in 2019 with the decline in the figure to 31.2%. More women (34.4%) than men (29.o %) worked for over 27 days a month. Table 82:No of workings days, by local/foreign No of Days Local Foreign Total Less than 20 days 3.79% 3.53% 3.75% 21 – 22 days 14.45% 2.35% 12.43% 23 – 24 days 12.80% 4.71% 11.44% 25 – 26 days 23.22% 56.47% 28.80% 27 days 7.58% 7.06% 7.50% More than 27 days 32.23% 25.88% 31.16% RF 5.92% 0.00% 4.93% Majority of the respondents felt that they get enough leisure time from work and thus report being satisfied with their free time (73.0%). This seems to hold true across the sexes.