SECTION 2

(1) The right to work shall be recognized as a basic right of each citizen. The State shall therefore make every effort to help citizens to find and secure their employment. (2) Work shall also be a national duty incumbent on every able- bodied adult citizen. (3) Forced or compulsory labour shall be forbidden. (4) "Forced or compulsory labour" shall mean any labour or service demanded of an individual under threat of penalty, being a labour or service which the individual has not freely offered to perform. (5) However, the expression "forced or compulsory labour" shall not include : • 1. any work or service exacted by virtue of compulsory military service laws and regulations for work of a purely military nature; • 2. any work or service in the general interest forming part of the civic obligations of citizens as defined by the laws and regulations ; • 3. any work or service exacted from any person as a consequence of a conviction in a court of law ; • 4. any work or service exacted in cases of force majeure, that is to say, in the event of war, disaster or threatened disaster, such as fire, flood, severe violent epidemic or epizootic diseases, invasion by animals, insects or plant pests, and in general, any occurrence that would endanger or threaten to endanger the existence of the well-being of all or part of the population.