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Metz firm caps exceptional working days at 12 hours by accord
Individual days may exceptionally reach 12 hours for distant sites or client constraints, with prior validation, capped at 48 hours a week and 44 on a 12-week average.
By Taxxa AI OyPublished 21 September 2026
The Metz-based company LAGLASSE & OMHOVERE (SA, Marly) has agreed with its comité social et économique on an open-ended arrangement allowing the daily working limit to be exceeded in exceptional cases. The statutory ceiling under article L3121-18 of the code du travail is 10 hours of effective work per dayLegifrance; under articles L3121-19 and L3121-20 the company may extend individual days to 12 hours
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Each overrun beyond 10 hours needs prior validation by management or the business manager, and the arrangement must remain exceptional and proportionate to genuine service needs rather than becoming the norm. Hours worked beyond 10 are tracked individually through the clocking system, so each employee's derogation days and their stated reasons feed the annual report to the comité social et économique. That yearly report is the monitoring mechanism: it lets staff representatives verify that the 12-hour days stayed confined to distant worksites and genuine client constraints instead of drifting into routine scheduling.
The weekly ceiling cannot exceed 48 hours in any single weekLegifrance or 44 hours on average over any 12 consecutive weeks
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Employees are informed of the arrangement's terms by posting and through the company's electronic document system, so anyone asked to work beyond 10 hours knows the validation and tracking rules. The comité social et économique receives the annual application report described above. The accord runs for an indefinite period and may be revised or denounced under the statutory procedure; it takes effect on filing with the competent DREETS via the TéléAccords platform. It was signed at Marly on 16 December 2025.Legifrance
Legal basis: articles L3121-18, L3121-19 and L3121-20 of the code du travail, implemented by the LAGLASSE & OMHOVERE company accord on the maximum daily working time.
Grant prior validation before any day beyond 10 hours at LAGLASSE & OMHOVERE, log the extra hours in the clocking system, and feed each derogation day into the annual CSE report.