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Article R6152-708 of the French Public Health Code

The weekly service of practitioners recruited on the basis of 3° of article L. 6152-1 is set at ten half-days per week when they work full-time and between four and nine half-days per week when they work part-time.

The maximum duration of the service obligations set out in the contract, performed during the day and at night from Monday to Sunday, may in no case exceed forty-eight hours per week on average calculated over the four-month period. When the service is performed at night, this is counted as two half-days.

Practitioners are entitled to a minimum daily rest period of eleven consecutive hours per twenty-four hour period. By way of derogation, they may work a maximum continuous period of twenty-four hours. In this case, they are entitled to an equivalent rest period immediately after this period.

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Article R6152-708

Le service hebdomadaire des praticiens recrutés sur le fondement du 3° de l’article L. 6152-1 est fixé à dix demi-journées hebdomadaires lorsqu’ils exercent à temps plein et entre quatre et neuf demi-journées hebdomadaires lorsqu’ils exercent à temps partiel.


La durée maximale des obligations de service fixées au contrat, effectuées de jour et de nuit du lundi au dimanche, ne peut en aucun cas excéder quarante-huit heures hebdomadaires en moyenne calculée sur le quadrimestre. Lorsque le service est effectué la nuit, celle-ci est comptée pour deux demi-journées.


Le praticien bénéficie d’un repos quotidien d’une durée minimale de onze heures consécutives par période de vingt-quatre heures. Par dérogation, il peut accomplir une durée de travail continue maximale de vingt-quatre heures. Dans ce cas, il bénéficie, immédiatement à l’issue de cette période, d’un repos d’une durée équivalente.

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