Employment Regulations s.26: rest breaks of "not less than 15 hours" for a working day of more than 6 hours

Section 26 of the Employment Regulations entitles an Employee whose working time on a day is more than 6 hours to rest breaks of "not less than 15 hours" in total; the breaks "may be spent away from the Employee's workstation". With the 8-hour limit in section 24 this makes a day of 23 hours of work and breaks, and more than 24 hours once working time exceeds 9 hours, so the figure is hard to apply as a break during work. The text has been the same since 2017. For comparison, the ADGM Employment Regulations (2015, 2019 and 2024), which have the same structure and the same 6-hour trigger, give rest breaks of not less than 1 hour in aggregate. The intended figure cannot be derived from the AIFC text itself.

Proposed correction

Please clarify whether the 15 hours in section 26 means breaks during work or total daily rest, and amend the figure or the wording accordingly.

Jurisdiction

Kazakhstan — AIFC

Act

AIFC Employment Regulations, V4

Place

s.26 Rest breaks

Record

Question of reading or data

Class

Question of reading or data

Where it arose

The text of the act

Arxo's conclusion

Confirmed

Official text

Unchanged at last check

Last checked

2026-10-24

Evidence

Contradiction within the text. Quotations are verbatim from the official material; translations are ours and marked.

If an Employee’s working time on a day is more than 6 hours

the Employee is entitled to rest breaks of not less than 15 hours in total

the Employee is entitled to rest breaks of not less than 15 hours in total

An Employee’s working time on a day must not exceed 8 hours unless the Employer has

The rest breaks may be spent away from the Employee’s workstation.

How to check it without Arxo's tools

1. Open AIFC Employment Regulations V4., with amendments as of 15 January 2021, commence on 15 January 2021 and find s.26 Rest breaks; Employment Regulations V4, s.24 (daily working time); Employment Regulations V4, s.26 (second sentence). Compare the text with the quotation above. A copy is kept in this register: 88395ed672316b81-v4_emp1.pdf (SHA-256 88395ed672316b81efa2cd856d1bd3968ac6ced06f27658e1cef4374f9423a8f, copy of the official file).
2. Open AIFC Employment Regulations and find V1 (2017) s.26 - same text. Compare the text with the quotation above. A copy is kept in this register: 19eae770bc9b98cc-4.-aifc-emploment-regulations-2017_new-design.pdf (SHA-256 19eae770bc9b98ccc0fd2ae0c5e0edf1136bd378e0401dbbb10ca6b324269683, copy of the official file).
3. The finding holds if the quoted passages read as shown and the comparison gives the result stated at the top of this page. If it does not, write to us with the record ID.

How this finding was made

AI agents read the official texts, turned the provisions concerned into executable rules and ran the comparison; they also drafted this record. A person at Arxo checked the finding and approved the report before it was sent (2026-10-27).

Responsible institutions

• AIFC Authority — body that prepares AIFC acts and publishes them on the AIFC website

Reported to

Responses

No response recorded.

Documents and reproduction

• AIFC Employment Regulations V4., with amendments as of 15 January 2021, commence on 15 January 2021
• AIFC Employment Regulations

History

1. 2026-10-24Confirmed by Arxo
2. 2026-10-27Entered in the register
3. 2026-10-27Reported to AIFC Authority (e-mail)

Cite this record

Arxo Law, Arxo Findings Register, ARXO-2026-0199, https://arxo.io/findings/ARXO-2026-0199/ (status as of 2026-10-24). Data: ARXO-2026-0199.json.