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No. The provisions relating to equal pay for men and women apply to basic ordinary wages as well as to any other benefit paid directly or indirectly, in cash or in kind, by employers to employees on account of their...

Full-time employee Failinhttps://itm.public.lu/fr/g agreement between the parties, a change in an employee’s weekly working hours is regarded as a substantial change detrimental to the employee. If the employee does not agree, the employer must observe the procedure laid down by...

Recourse to overtime is limited to the following exceptions: to prevent the loss of perishable materials or ensure that the technical results of work are not compromised; to facilitate special work (for the preparation of inventories or balance sheets, due...

If the employer finds himself in one of the exceptional situations allowing recourse to overtime, and provided that he has followed the prior procedure of notification or ministerial authorisation, where applicable, the employer may require his employees to work overtime....

Any person who receives (known as the accipiens) in error or knowingly a payment which is not due to him is under an obligation to repay it to the person from whom he improperly received it (known as the solvens)....

Pregnant women cannot be compelled to work between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. when in the opinion of the competent occupational doctor, that is necessary for the purposes of their health or safety. The same applies to a woman who...

The prohibition of Sunday work does not apply: to family undertakings in which the only employees are ascendants, descendants, brothers and sisters or within the same degree of the employer; to hotels, restaurants, canteens, bars and other establishments where food...

The regulations related to working hours apply to all employees that work in the private and public sectors. The regulations related to working hours set out below do not apply: to family undertakings, which employ only the ascendants, descendants, brothers,...

In principle, the parties to the contract are free to set the working hours. However, this freedom is strictly limited in so far as ordinary working hours are consistently limited to: 8 hours a day; and 40 hours a week....

In principle, the maximum working hours may not exceed: 10 hours a day; and 48 hours a week. Under a Grand-Ducal Regulation (which does not to date exist) it will be possible to determine a limited number of sectors, branches...

Cases requiring a prior procedure All overtime in the following cases is subject to a prior procedure for notification to, or authorisation from, the Minister of Labour: to prevent the loss of perishable materials or ensure that the technical results...

The normal working time of night workers may not exceed an average of 8 hours in each period of 24 hours calculated over a period of 7 days. Night workers who occupy posts in which the work involves particular risks...

For employees in the hospitality and catering industry, any work done between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. is regarded as night work for purposes of the application of the law. The remuneration payable for each hour of night work between...

Whilst in principle, and in accordance with Article L.211-5 of the Labour Code, working hours are strictly limited to 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week, greater flexibility may be applied in strictly defined sectors characterised by extraordinary...

The provisions of the Labour Code provide that the time during which an employee is at the disposal of his employer or employers is to be regarded as working time. Excluded however are rest periods, during which the employee is...