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In principle, remuneration is freely determined by the employer and his employee. The employer is nevertheless required to comply with the social minimum wage (SSM) and, if any, scales of remuneration laid down in certain collectives work agreements.

For young employees, the level of the social minimum wage is set as follows with effect from 1 May 2025 : Table showing the level of the social minimum wage Age % of SSM Gross hourly wage Gross monthly wage...

The parties to an employment contract may either indicate the basic hourly wage or the basic monthly wage. If a basic hourly wage is indicated, the employer is required to remunerate the employee according to the hours which he has...

So far as concerns reimbursements for travel using a private vehicle on behalf of the undertaking, there is no provision in the Labour Code on that subject. Whether or not travel expenses are to be reimbursed is a matter left...

Yes. It is absolutely essential that the employee’s employment contract expressly provides an exact and detailed breakdown of the amount of cash remuneration and the value of remuneration in kind, in accordance with Article L.121-4(2), point 7, of the Labour...

Definition An assignment is a voluntary act by an employee by which he authorises the employer to transfer part of his wages to another person; the validity of the assignment is subject to the drawing up in advance of a...

Yes. Unequal pay for men and women may be acceptable if the employer establishes that it is based on objective and non-discriminatory factors. In France, the Court of Cassation (judgment of 21 January 2009, No 07-43.452, Bull. civ. V.) held...

Definitions The working hours is the time during which the employee is available to his/her employer or employers, if there are more than one, except for the rest periods during which the employee is not required to be available to...

A receipt in full and final settlement, duly revoked or incapable of having a discharging effect because it does not respect the legal conditions for validity, has the value of only a simple receipt for the sums to which it...

Full-time employee The employer may change the allocation of weekly working hours as laid down in the employment contract if the possibility of such a change is provided for in the employment contract. Examples “Working hours may vary according to...

An employer is required to keep a special register of all extensions of normal working time, hours worked on Sundays, on statutory public holidays, and at night and also the wages paid for such work.

Article L.211-27 of the Labour Code provides that “The hourly wage is obtained by dividing monthly wages by the flat rate of one hundred and seventy-three hours”. Thus, the wage to be taken into account for calculation of the hourly...

Definitions The Labour Code defines the nocturnal period as the interval between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.. The following persons are regarded as night workers within the meaning of the law: every employee who works during the nocturnal period for...

No legal provision sets wage increments for night work in companies not covered by a collective work agreement. Only in the legislation on collective employment relationships is there any mention of a rate increase for night work. In fact, it...

For companies in which work is organised on the basis of successive teams operating in continuous shifts, that is to say who work 24 hours a day and 7 days a week (24/7), a company agreement may derogate, subject to...