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Article L3123-5 of the French Labour Code

Part-time employees benefit from the rights granted to full-time employees by law and by company or establishment agreements, subject, as regards conventional rights, to specific terms provided for by a collective agreement. The trial period for a part-time employee may not be longer than that for a full-time employee. Taking into account the length of time worked and seniority in the company, the remuneration of a part-time employee is proportional…

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Article L3123-6 of the French Labour Code

A part-time employee’s contract of employment must be in writing. It shall state : 1° The employee’s qualifications, the elements of remuneration, the planned weekly or monthly working time and, except for employees of home help associations and companies and employees covered by a collective agreement concluded in application of article L. 3121-44, the distribution of the working time between the days of the week or the weeks of the…

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Article L3123-7 of the French Labour Code

Part-time employees benefit from a minimum weekly working time determined in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in articles L. 3123-19 and L. 3123-27. The first paragraph of this article does not apply: 1° To contracts lasting no more than seven days ; 2° Fixed-term contracts concluded under 1° of article L. 1242-2 ; 3° Temporary employment contracts concluded under 1° of article L. 1251-6 to replace an…

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Article L3123-10 of the French Labour Code

Refusal to work the overtime proposed by the employer beyond the limits set by the contract does not constitute misconduct or grounds for dismissal. The same applies, within these limits, if the employee is informed less than three days before the date on which the overtime is to be worked.

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Article L3123-12 of the French Labour Code

Where the employer asks the employee to modify the distribution of his working hours, even though the employment contract has not provided for the cases and nature of such modifications, the employee’s refusal to accept this modification constitutes neither misconduct nor grounds for dismissal. When the employer asks the employee to modify the distribution of his working hours in one of the cases and according to the procedures defined in…

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Article L3123-13 of the French Labour Code

When, during a period of twelve consecutive weeks or during a period of twelve weeks within a period of fifteen weeks or during the period provided for by a collective agreement concluded on the basis of article L. 3121-44, whichever is longer, the average working hours actually worked by an employee exceed by at least two hours per week, or by the monthly equivalent of this duration, the working hours…

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Article L3123-14 of the French Labour Code

The monthly working time of a part-time employee may not be reduced by more than one third by the use of the credit hours to which he is entitled for the exercise of mandates he holds within a company. Any balance of these paid hours may be used outside working hours.

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