Dordogne private hospital rewrites 1999 working-time deal

Employees of LE VERGER DES BALANS, a private for-profit hospital in Annesse-et-Beaulieu (Dordogne), work under a rewritten working-time agreement signed on 21 April 2026Legifrance with the FO union delegate. It revises the company's 21 June 1999 working-time agreementLegifrance, specifying working-time terms in parallel with the branch agreement for private for-profit hospitals; together with a separate 25 March 2026 agreement on annual day-packages for cadres, it replaces the 1999 clauses on the same subject. It applies to all staff except day-package employees and senior executives within the meaning of article L.3111-2 of the Code du travail, takes effect the day after filingLegifrance, and runs for an indefinite term.

Effective working time follows article L.3121-1 of the Code du travail: time at the employer's disposal under its directives without freedom to attend to personal matters. Meal breaks for staff not concerned by therapeutic meals, on-call periods apart from actual intervention time, and commuting to the place of work do not count as effective working time.

The daily effective working time may not exceed 10 hoursLegifrance, but as the branch agreement allows, it may rise to 12 hours a day by concerted agreement between management and employeesLegifrance; daily span is capped at 13 hours. The week runs Monday 0h to Sunday 24h under article L.3122-1. For a full-time employee the week is capped at 48 hoursLegifrance and 44 hours on average over a cycle of up to 12 consecutive weeksLegifrance, without exceeding 420 hours excluding overtime.

Rest rights cover all staff: at least 11 consecutive hours of daily rest between two work periods, four rest days over two weeks including two consecutive days or 48 consecutive hours, and one guaranteed Sunday every two weeks except for volunteers hired exclusively for weekend workLegifrance. No employee works more than six consecutive days, nor six days a week for more than two consecutive weeks. A night worker as defined by the branch agreement earns compensatory rest of 2.5% of hours worked between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., provided at least three night hours were workedLegifrance.

Hours may be spread over cycles of up to 12 weeks for full-time and part-time staff, given continuous service needsLegifrance. Any change to the distribution of hours within the week or between cycle weeks must be notified by the manager at least seven working days in advance except in emergencies — for extra workload, deadline-bound tasks, absences or collective reschedulingLegifrance — by any means proving the employee was informed. Legal basis: Accord collectif relatif à la durée et à l'aménagement du temps de travail, LE VERGER DES BALANS, 21 April 2026.