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

Article D3171-8 of the French Labour Code

When the employees of a workshop, department or team, within the meaning of article D. 3171-7, do not work according to the same posted collective working timetable, the working time of each employee concerned is counted according to the following procedures: 1° Daily, by recording, by any means, the start and end times of each work period or by recording the number of hours worked; 2° Each week, by summarising…

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Article D3171-9 of the French Labour Code

The provisions of article D. 3171-8 do not apply: 1° To employees covered by collective labour agreements or agreements providing for fixed working hours where these agreements or agreements lay down the procedures for monitoring working hours; 2° To employees covered by extended collective branch agreements providing for a pre-determined quantification of working time based on objective criteria and laying down the procedures for monitoring working time (1).

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Article D3171-11 of the French Labour Code

In the absence of any agreement to the contrary, employees are informed of the number of hours of compensatory rest and mandatory time off credited to them by means of a document attached to the pay slip. As soon as this number reaches seven hours, this document includes a note notifying the opening of the right to rest and the obligation to take it within a maximum period of two…

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Article D3171-12 of the French Labour Code

When employees in a workshop, department or team do not work according to the same posted collective working hours, a monthly document, a duplicate of which is attached to the pay slip, is drawn up for each employee. This document includes the information provided for in article D. 3171-11 as well as: 1° The total amount of overtime worked since the beginning of the year; 2° The number of hours…

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Article D3171-13 of the French Labour Code

In companies and establishments which apply a system for the organisation of working time in application of the provisions of article L. 3121-44, the total number of hours worked since the beginning of the reference period is mentioned at the end of the period or when the employee leaves if this takes place during the period, on a document attached to the last pay slip for this period.

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Article D3171-14 of the French Labour Code

The right of access to personal information provided for in article 39 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and civil liberties applies to documents recording employees’ working hours.

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Article D3171-15 of the French Labour Code

The documents mentioned in articles D. 3171-7 to D. 3171-13 may be in electronic format where equivalent control guarantees are maintained. In the event of automated processing of nominative data, the employer shall, at its request, provide the Labour Inspectorate monitoring officer with the receipt certifying that it has made the prior declaration provided for by the aforementioned law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978.

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Article D3171-16 of the French Labour Code

The employer shall keep available for the Labour Inspectorate: 1° For a period of one year, including in the case of individualised working hours, or for a period equivalent to the reference period in the case of the organisation of working time over a period longer than one year, the documents existing in the company or establishment enabling the hours worked by each employee to be recorded; 2° For a…

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Article R3172-1 of the French Labour Code

In undertakings and establishments where all employees without exception do not benefit from weekly rest for the whole day on Sunday, the employer shall inform the employees, by any means, of the days and hours of collective rest allocated to all or some of them: 1° On a day other than Sunday ; 2° From noon on Sunday to noon on Monday; 3° Or on Sunday afternoon, subject to compensatory…

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