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Sunday work confers on employees the right to an increase of remuneration of 70% for each hour worked on a Sunday. Employees working on a Sunday are entitled to compensatory rest corresponding to: a full day, if the Sunday work...

Where daily working time exceeds 6 hours per day, the work schedule must include one or more rest periods, remunerated or otherwise, consonant with the nature of the activity performed. It should be noted that the duration of such rest...

The working of overtime confers on employees entitlement either to compensatory rest time or to wage increments. Compensatory rest time Since the introduction of the “single status”, overtime is: either paid for at the rate of one hour and a...

The employer is required to record in a special register or file all extensions of normal working time, hours worked on Sundays, on statutory public holidays or at night, and the wages paid under any of those headings. The said...

The Labour Code in principle prohibits employers from assigning employees bound by an employment contract or an apprenticeship contract to work on Sundays from midnight to midnight.

Yes. Companies engaged in commercial or artisanal activities that are permitted to employ staff on Sundays are those that: are subject to an establishment authorization; have as their purpose the direct sale of goods or the provision of services to...

An employee may hold several posts provided that the normal limit on working hours of 40 hours per week is observed. An employee with several posts is required to give notice to the Inspectorate of Labour and Mines of the...

Definitions In principle, any hour worked beyond the daily and weekly limits of normal working hours prescribed by law, that is to say more than 8 hours per day and more than 40 hours per week, or by the parties,...

No more than 2 hours’ overtime per day may be worked in any circumstances. The total daily working time may not therefore exceed 10 hours. However, those limitations are not applicable to work performed in order to deal with an...

The Minister of Labour may grant written derogations from the prohibition of night work for work carried out in the context of official vocational training organised and supervised by the competent public authorities: in the sphere of health professions; in...

The prohibition of Sunday work does not apply to: supervision of the premises allocated to the undertaking; cleaning, repair and maintenance work needed to ensure proper continuous operation; works other than those of production on which the regular resumption of...

Duration of daily work in the case of weekly working hours spread over 5 days or less If weekly working hours are spread over 5 days or less, the normal working hours may automatically be increased to 9 hours per...

All employees are entitled to an uninterrupted weekly rest of 44 hours which must, as far as possible, include a complete Sunday. Where a weekly rest is not possible and regardless of any finding by the ITM, employees are entitled...

No. The rules for the remuneration of overtime do not apply to employees having the status of senior executives. Definition Employees fulfilling both of the following conditions are regarded as senior executives: they receive significantly higher remuneration than employees covered...

The prohibition of Sunday work does not apply to: to sales travellers and representatives, to the extent to which they work away from the company; to employees holding an effective management post; to senior executives whose presence in the company...