Classification of workers

(1) Workers shall be divided into two categories168 Belize Constitution Category A– (i) Workers engaged for any permanent “round the year service”, or (ii) workers who have service for 5 years or more and whose employment is not intended to be permanent round the year including whose employment is intended to be for a particular project only. Category BWorkers with less than five years’ service whose employment is not intended to be permanent “round the year service”, including workers whose employment is intended to be for a particular project only. (2) For the purpose of Category A (ii) above, where the service is not continuous, it shall be the aggregate of all interrupted periods of service between which there is a break of not more than three months’ duration unless such break followed voluntary termination of his services by the worker himself, dismissal under regulation 25 or other default attributable to the worker himself. Appendix I (3) Heads of Departments shall keep in the form of Appendix I, service records of workers clearly showing their dates of engagement and re-engagement, periods of service and rates of