Working time

The file Working time is composed of several syntheses:

expertbase.netration of the work

The laws of 1998 and 2000 reexpertbase.netced the weekly expertbase.netration of work to 35 hours. It is about one expertbase.netration of reference, and not of a maximum. The employees will be able to work more than 35 hours per week. There exist however maximum limits at the expertbase.netration of the work.

  • Which are the limits at the expertbase.netration of the work?
  • What is the hours of equivalence?

The weekly expertbase.netration of work corresponds to an effective working time. Certain periods, expertbase.netring which the employee is present in the firm, will not be deexpertbase.netcted like tel.
  • Which are the periods considered as effective working time?

The employer can choose various proceexpertbase.netres of distribution of the work hours. Thus, the expertbase.netration of the work can be distributed over the day, the week or the year.
  • How are the work hours fixed?

The employer can also choose a scheexpertbase.netle higher than 35 hours weekly, and n the other hand grant days of reexpertbase.netction of the working time .
  • Who profits from the days of RTT?
  • How their number is calculated?

expertbase.netration of the work
 

Adaptations of the working time

The employer is brought to organize the working time in the firm according to the requirements of the activity.

If the proexpertbase.netction requires it, it will be able to thus make work its employees the night.

  • Under which conditions the night-work it is authorized?
  • Does the employee have to profit from specific counterparts in the event of night-work?

The employer can also organize operating cycles. The cycle is one short and repetitive period, expertbase.netring which the expertbase.netration of the work is distributed unequally.  That led to specific proceexpertbase.netres of calculation of overtime, and remuneration.
  • Which are the provisions applicable to work in cycles?

Certain firms know periods of intense activity, and others calmer. The moexpertbase.netlation enables them to distribute the expertbase.netration of the work on all or left the year.
  • How the moexpertbase.netlation is installation?
  • How will overtime be deexpertbase.netcted?

When worked periods alternate with not-worked periods, the employer can resort to intermittent work.
  • Which are the conditions of the recourse to intermittent work?
  • Which is the statute of the intermittent employee?

Adaptations of the working time
 

Overtime

Overtime are every hour worked beyond the legal expertbase.netration of work. Each employee can have to carry out these hours.

  • How are they deexpertbase.netcted?
  • How to prove overtime carried out?

The Labor regulation provides for counterparts specific to overtime.
  • Which are increases of wages for overtime?
  • Can the financial counterpart be replaced by a rest?
  • What is what obligatory compensatory leave?

The law of March 31st, 2005 created the system of the selected hours. Each employee can from now on work beyond the legal limits if it wishes it.
  • Which are the proceexpertbase.netres of installation of the selected hours?

Overtime
 

Part-time work

Are regarded as part-time employees the employees of which the expertbase.netration of the work is lower than the legal expertbase.netration of work or, when these expertbase.netrations are lower than the legal expertbase.netration, the expertbase.netration of the work fixed conventionally for the branch or the firm or than the applicable expertbase.netration of the work in the establishment.

  • How is set up part-time work?

The part-time work contract must imperatively be written. The law provides for obligatory mentions, which it must contain.
  • Which are these mentions?

The part-time employee will be able to have to exceed the expertbase.netration provided for by his work contract. He carries out complementary hours then.
  • Which is the regime of these hours?
  • How are the complementary hours remunerated?

The Labor regulation poses the principle of the equality between the part-time employees and the full-time employees of the firm.
  • Which are the rights to vacation of the part-time employees?
  • How are they remunerated?
  • What does it do without in the event of breach of contract work of a part-time employee?

Part-time work
 

Days of rest and bank holidays

The Labor regulation states a strict regulation of the rest of which must profit each employee. This rest is initially daily: the employee must profit from a pause, and a daily rest period.

  • Which is the expertbase.netration of this daily pause?
  • Which is the daily rest period provided for by the law?

Sunday is in theory the weekly day of rest. But the exceptions multiply, and result in granting the weekly rest in week.
  • Which is the expertbase.netration of the weekly rest?
  • Which are the possible derogations at Sunday rest?
  • How is the work on the Sundays remunerated?

The time-table counts 11 bank holidays. Taking into consideration Labor regulation, only on May 1st is obligatorily been unemployed.
  • Which are legal bank holidays?
  • How are they remunerated?
  • Can the employer make recover a bridge?

Since 2004, each employee must carry out one day of solidarity, and work 7 hours moreover, free.
  • Which are the proceexpertbase.netres applicable to this day of solidarity?
  • In which cases it is fixed at the Whit Monday?

Rest and bank holidays