Chapter I: Working hours and working arrangements

Unless otherwise stipulated in an agreement referred to in Article L. 3121-32, the working week begins at 00.00 on Monday and ends at 24.00 on Sunday.

In the absence of an agreement, overtime worked in excess of the legal weekly working hours set out in article L. 3121-27 or the working hours considered to be equivalent give rise to an increase in pay of 25% for each of the first eight hours of overtime. Subsequent hours are paid at a rate of 50%.

In companies where there is no trade union representative, the employer may replace all or part of the payment for overtime, as well as any additional pay, with an equivalent compensatory rest period, provided that the social and economic committee, if there is one, does not object. The employer may also adapt the conditions and procedures for allocating and taking the substitute compensatory rest to the company, after consulting the…

In the absence of an agreement, the compulsory counterpart in the form of time off mentioned in article L. 3121-30 is set at 50% of the overtime hours worked in excess of the annual quota mentioned in the same article L. 3121-30 for companies with no more than twenty employees, and at 100% of these same hours for companies with more than twenty employees. For the application of the first…

In the absence of an agreement, a decree determines the annual quota defined in article L. 3121-30 as well as the characteristics and conditions for taking the compulsory compensatory rest for any overtime worked in excess of this quota.

In the absence of an agreement, the Social and Economic Committee is consulted at least once a year on the arrangements for using the annual overtime quota and any excess.