The employer may, under his sole responsibility and by informing the labour inspector, derogate from the minimum period of eleven hours’ daily rest per employee in the event of urgent work whose immediate execution is necessary in order to: 1° Organise rescue measures ; 2° Prevent imminent accidents; 3° Repair accidents to equipment, installations or buildings.
The derogations provided for in articles D. 3131-1 and D. 3131-4 to D. 3131-7 are subject to the allocation of at least equivalent periods of rest to the employees concerned. Where it is not possible to grant such rest, equivalent compensation is provided for by collective labour agreement.
To ensure compliance with the minimum daily rest period of eleven consecutive hours for employees who do not work to a collective timetable, the employer may set a daily period for the establishment, workshop, department or team within the meaning of article D. 3171-7 which corresponds at least to the duration of this rest period. The times at which this period begins and ends are posted in the company. If…
A derogation may be made from the minimum daily rest period of eleven hours per employee, under the terms and conditions laid down by the agreement provided for in Article L. 3131-2, to the minimum period of eleven hours’ daily rest per employee for those carrying out the following activities: 1° Activities characterised by the distance between the employee’s home and workplace or by the distance between different workplaces of…
In the event of an increase in activity, the agreement provided for in article L. 3131-2 may provide for a reduction in the daily rest period.
A collective labour agreement may not have the effect of reducing the daily rest period to less than nine hours.
In the event of increased activity, in the absence of a collective labour agreement, a reduction in the daily rest period may be implemented under the conditions defined in articles D. 3121-5 to D. 3121-7.
Establishments in the industries listed in the following table, which allocate the weekly rest period to all employees on the same day, benefit from the suspension of the weekly rest period provided for in Article L. 3132-5: Furniture, upholstery, trimmings for furniture. Orthopaedic appliances. Bathing establishments. Jewellery and jewellers. Biscuits using fresh butter (butter factories). Linen laundries. Tins (manufacture and metal printing for). Fine hosiery. Bakeries. Brochages for printed matter….
Loading and unloading operations in the following activities benefit from the derogation provided for in article L. 3132-6: 1° Outdoor construction and repair work on river boats; 2° Building work; 3° Open-air brickworks; 4° Fruit, vegetable and fish canning factories; 5° Open-air rope works.
For work carried out outdoors in the following activities, the weekly rest period may be deferred in application of article L. 3132-7: 1° Outdoor construction and repair work on river boats; 2° Building work; 3° Brickworks; 4° Corderies.
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