Where Sunday rest has been cancelled on the day of a national or local election, the employer shall take all necessary measures to enable employees to exercise their right to vote in person.
Any employee deprived of Sunday rest shall receive remuneration at least equal to double the remuneration normally due for an equivalent period, as well as equivalent compensatory rest in time. The order issued in application of article L. 3132-26 determines the conditions under which this rest is granted, either collectively or by rotation in the fortnight preceding or following the withdrawal of the rest period. If Sunday rest is cancelled…
The first paragraph of article L. 3132-25-4 is applicable to employees deprived of Sunday rest pursuant to article L. 3132-26.
Within the perimeter of each territorial coherence plan, the State representative in the region convenes an annual meeting of mayors, chairmen of public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status, retailers’ associations and organisations representing employees and employers in the retail trade, and organises a consultation on Sunday opening practices in retail outlets with regard to the exemptions from Sunday rest provided for in this sub-section and their…
The decrees of the Conseil d’Etat provided for in articles L. 3132-5, L. 3132-7, L. 3132-10 and L. 3132-13 are issued in the same manner as those provided for in article L. 3121-67 for decrees implementing provisions relating to working hours.
Where an agreement has been reached between trade unions and employers’ organisations in a given profession or geographical area on the conditions under which employees are to be given their weekly rest period, the Prefect may, by order, at the request of the trade unions concerned, order the closure to the public of establishments in the profession or geographical area concerned for the duration of the rest period. These provisions…
The closure provided for in article L. 3132-29 does not apply to exhibitors’ stands at exhibitions, fairs or shows included on a list determined, after consultation with the employers’ and employees’ organisations concerned, by joint order of the ministers responsible for labour and trade. Exhibitors benefiting from these provisions may grant their employees weekly rest periods in rotation.
The Labour Inspector may, notwithstanding any criminal proceedings, refer the matter to the court in summary proceedings in order to order all appropriate measures to put an end to the unlawful employment of employees in breach of the provisions of articles L. 3132-3 and L. 3132-13 in retail establishments and establishments providing services to consumers. In particular, the court may order the establishment or establishments concerned to close on Sundays….
The legal holidays listed below are public holidays: 1° 1st January ; 2° Easter Monday ; 3° 1st May ; 4° 8th May ; 5° Ascension Day ; 6° Whit Monday ; 7° 14th July 8° Assumption Day 9° All Saints’ Day ; 10° November 11th ; 11° Christmas Day.
Hours lost as a result of public holidays are not recovered.
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