La Poste Beauvais sites switch to variable hours over 12 and 10 weeks

La Poste's Beauvais PPDC postal unit has given its Neuilly-en-Thelle and Ons-en-Bray sites a new working-time regimeLegifrance, signed on 15 June 2026Legifrance with the representative unions for one year from 31 August 2026Legifrance. The accord covers full-time civil servants and employees (open-ended and fixed-term) plus public-law ACO staff assigned to the two sites, part-timers included with individual notice of their specific arrangements; day-rate managers with autonomous schedules and agency temps are excluded.

The core rule is a 35-hour average spread over a reference periodLegifrance of 12 weeks at Neuilly-en-ThelleLegifrance and 10 weeks at Ons-en-BrayLegifrance, with high weeks above 35 hours, average weeks at 35 and low weeks below, all compensating to the averageLegifrance. Statutory ceilings cap the spread: no more than 10 hours a day, 48 hours in a week or 44 hours on average over 12 weeks, with at least 11 consecutive hours of daily rest, 35 hours of weekly rest and an 11-hour maximum span under La Poste's internal rules.

Within those bounds, staff work variable start and finish times around compulsory fixed presence slots, choosing arrival and departure freely in the variable windows while guaranteeing service coverage during opening hours. Rosters are posted before each reference period, with a four-month production plan for visibility, and the employer may change schedules on 7 days' notice for service or production needs, or 2 days in exceptional public-service situations such as weather or continuity plans.

The variable hours feed an individual debit/credit counter, reviewed at the end of each reference period: staff may carry up to 7 hours a weekLegifrance and 14 hours over the periodLegifrance, tracked through the Mes Horaires time-clock app. Self-chosen extra hours are not overtimeLegifrance; a credit balance at period end is paid at the agent's hourly rate, while a debit balance is not deducted but carried into the next period beyond 4 hours. Agents with a sufficient credit may take up to 2 recovery days (jours de liberté) per period with their manager's approvalLegifrance. Genuine overtime — hours above the 35-hour average worked at the employer's requestLegifrance — is paid with uplifts or converted to equivalent compensatory rest outside the overtime quotaLegifrance. Pay is smoothed at 35 hours a week (151.67 hours a month) regardless of the week's actual hours.

Joiners mid-period follow the current rosters with settlement at period end; leavers settle any balance during notice, paid or deducted at the normal hourly rate. Misuse of the autonomy can cost an individual the variable-hours benefit temporarily after a first interview, or a whole team after an action plan fails; fraud may draw disciplinary sanctions. A joint monitoring commission with 3 representatives per signatory union meets at least 3 times a year, with a first review within 3 months.

Legal basis: accord collectif La Poste Beauvais PPDC of 15 June 2026 applying the La Poste framework accord of 17 February 1999 and articles L.3121-41, L.3121-44, L.3121-48 and L.3121-51 of the Code du travail.