The section of the Act that regulate working hours does not apply to: workers in senior management. sales staff who travel and regulate their own working hours. workers who work less than 24 hours in a month. workers who earn in excess of an amount stated in terms of section 6 (3) of the Act.
1 The median age of onset for bipolar disorder is 25 years (National Institue of Mental Health), although the illness can start in early childhood or as late as the 40's and 50's.
Children and Adolescents. 1  Bipolar disorder is more likely to affect the children of parents who have the disorder. 2  Bipolar Disorder may be at least as common among youth as among adults. 3  Some 20% of adolescents with major depression develop bipolar disorder within five years of the onset of depression. (Birmaher, B., Childhood and Adolescent Depression: A Review of the Past 10 Years. Part I, 1995) Up to one-third of the 3.4 million children and adolescents with depression in the United States may actually be experiencing the early onset of bipolar disorder. (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1997)