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

For the staff of hotels, cafés, restaurants and establishments or organisations in which foodstuffs or beverages are consumed on the premises and for the kitchen staff of other establishments, who because of the particular conditions of their work or customary practice, are provided with free food by the employer or receive a compensatory allowance, food calculated in accordance with the provisions of article D. 3231-10, is only taken into account…

In all cases where an employee, with board and lodging, receives remuneration in cash in excess of the minimum resulting from the provisions of this sub-section, the application of these provisions shall not result in any change to this remuneration.

For employees in the agricultural professions for whom the employer provides food and accommodation or one of these benefits in kind, in the absence of a collective labour agreement, the daily food allowance is valued at two and a half times the hourly rate of the guaranteed minimum provided for in article L. 3231-12. The monthly accommodation benefit is valued at eight times this same rate. The valuation of other…

A collective labour agreement or contract of employment may not contain clauses providing for the allocation of alcoholic beverages to employees as a benefit in kind. These provisions do not apply to drinks served with meals as a benefit in kind.