Part Three: Working hours, pay, profit-sharing and employee savings schemes

A company or establishment agreement or, failing that, a branch agreement extended or approved in application ofarticle L. 314-6 of the Code de l’Action Sociale et des Familles may define the distribution of working hours for part-time employees during the working day. If this distribution includes more than one interruption of activity or an interruption of more than two hours, the agreement or arrangement defines the working hours during which…

A company or establishment agreement or, failing that, an extended branch agreement may determine the period within which the employee is to be notified of the change in the distribution of working hours. This period may not be less than three working days. In home help associations and companies, this period may be shorter in emergencies defined by an extended branch agreement or agreement or by a company or establishment…

The collective agreement allowing the derogations provided for in articles L. 3123-20 and L. 3123-24 includes guarantees relating to the implementation, for part-time employees, of the rights granted to full-time employees, in particular the right to equal access to promotion, career and training opportunities, as well as the setting of a minimum period of continuous work and a limit on the number of interruptions of activity during the same day.

In the absence of an agreement as provided for in Article L. 3123-23, the working hours of a part-time employee may not include more than one interruption of activity or an interruption of more than two hours in the course of a single day.

In the absence of an agreement as provided for in article L. 3123-24, any change in the distribution of working hours between the days of the week or the weeks of the month is notified to the employee at least seven working days before the date on which it is to take place.