The weekly working hours of full-time contractual practitioners are set at ten half-days per week, but may not exceed forty-eight hours per week, calculated as an average over a period of four months. When work is performed at night, it is counted as two half-days.
Part-time contractual practitioners work between four and nine half-days a week.
By way of derogation from the previous paragraph, the weekly service of practitioners recruited on the basis of article R. 6152-403, with the exception of the service of those recruited in a public establishment mentioned in I of article L. 313-12 of the code de l’action sociale et des familles, may be less than four half-days per week.
When medical activity is organised on a continuous basis, the weekly service obligation of practitioners is, by way of derogation from the three paragraphs above, calculated in hours, on average over a period of four months, and may not exceed forty-eight hours, in proportion to the length of the practitioner’s weekly service obligations.
Practitioners may, on a voluntary basis, work additional time over and above their weekly service obligations, giving rise either to recuperation or to compensation.
Contractual practitioners are entitled to a minimum daily rest period of eleven consecutive hours per twenty-four hour period.
The practitioner is guaranteed a daily rest period after the end of the last journey made during an on-call period.
By way of derogation from the provisions of the previous paragraph, they may carry out a continuous period of work not exceeding twenty-four hours; in this case, they shall benefit, immediately at the end of this period, from a rest of an equivalent duration.
The time spent on site and the time spent travelling during an on-call period constitute actual working time and are taken into account for the allocation of the daily rest period.