Paragraph 1: Permanent derogation as of right.

Certain establishments, the operation or opening of which is made necessary by the constraints of production, activity or the needs of the public, may as of right derogate from the rule of Sunday rest by allocating weekly rest in rotation. A Conseil d’Etat decree determines the categories of establishments concerned.

In food retail outlets, the weekly rest period may be given on Sundays from 1 p.m. onwards. Employees under the age of twenty-one who live with their employers are entitled to another afternoon’s compensatory rest per week, in rotation. Other employees are entitled to a full day’s compensatory rest in shifts every fortnight. In food retail outlets whose sales area exceeds the threshold mentioned in the first paragraph of article…