# Labor Ministry sets 2027 working-time norm: 2,050 hours on a five-day week

- URL: https://syn.by/en/state/work-employment/labor-ministry-sets-2027-working-time-norm-2050-hours-on-a-five-day-week/
- Published: 2026-10-15T16:00:07+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-21T16:26:31+00:00
- Section: Work & Employment
- Language: en
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> On a six-day working week the norm will be 2,031 hours. Non-state Belarusian outlets write that annual working time will increase in 2027.

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Belarus has set the calculated working-time norm for 2027. It is laid down in Resolution No. 81 of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, dated 6 October 2026.

For a five-day working week with Saturday and Sunday off, the calculated norm will be 2,050 hours. For a six-day working week with Sunday off, it is 2,031 hours. Both figures refer to the full standard working time.

The press service of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection explained how these values were obtained. The norm is calculated on the basis of a 40-hour working week. For the five-day week, 8 hours were used for working days from Monday to Friday and 7 hours for working days immediately preceding public holidays.

For the six-day week, the ministry used different parameters: 7 hours from Monday to Friday and 5 hours on Saturday. On pre-holiday days this is 6 hours on weekdays and 4 hours on Saturday.

Non-state Belarusian outlets report that annual working time will increase in 2027. According to them, with a standard 40-hour week, the annual limit for employees on a five-day week with Saturday and Sunday off will be 2,050 hours.

The new norms are being introduced against the following economic backdrop: in 2025, Belarus's GDP growth was 1.3%, inflation was 6.6% and unemployment was 3.4%. The country's population by then was about 9.1 million.

This is not the ministry's first employment-related decision in recent times. According to Telegram channels, the ministry's Resolution No. 24 of 22 April 2026 came into force on 24 July 2026. It makes it easier for senior-year students to be officially employed in a number of in-demand positions while they study.

It is not yet known exactly when Resolution No. 81, which sets the norms for 2027, will come into force.