Conseil Elevage 25-90 resets pay, hours and leave from January

All employees of Conseil Elevage 25-90 in Roulans (Doubs), except the director, work under a revised company agreementLegifrance that applies for an indefinite period from 1 January 2026Legifrance. Signed with the CFDT union delegate, it revises the company agreement of 24 October 2003 and its amendments to align with the national agreement for conseil et service en élevage of 6 July 2023, and replaces all earlier company agreements and practices on the same subjectsLegifrance.

Pay combines a class-based monthly base salary at least equal to the company's guaranteed minimum (RMAG) in annex 2, from €22,727 gross a year in class 1 echelon 1 to €47,959 in class 10 echelon 2, plus a loyalty bonus, a salary complement linked to the company minimum, and a year-end bonus of 36% of fixed monthly salary plus seniority paid with December pay. Staff leaving during the year receive it pro rata, except on dismissal for serious or gross misconduct. Each January the annual pay negotiation sets the share of the wage bill for advancement; in classes 1 to 3 a merit promotion worth 0.4% of gross fixed payroll takes effect each 1 August for one-seventh of each class, at €600 gross a year per full-time equivalent in 2026, indexed on the company minimum.

Part-time weighing and team-secretary contracts may include complementary hours up to one-third of contractual hours, paid at 125% each semester in January and July; refusing hours beyond the contractual limit is neither misconduct nor grounds for dismissal. Part-timers mainly weighing in non-robotised parlours, contracted above 15.5 hours a week, hired before 1 July and present on 31 December, receive twelve times the hourly SMIC with December pay when their monthly average from December of year N-1 to November of year N reaches 16 weighings, with no pro rata.

For weighing agents, travel between home and workplace counts as 10 minutes per milking. Agents with a service vehicle convert distance beyond 68 km per weighing on average into working time at 50 km/h; agents using their own vehicle receive a mileage indemnity plus a complement beyond the same threshold. Advisers get a service vehicle; weighing agents covering 15,000 km are offered one.

Advisers work annualised hours of 1,607 hours per calendar year with smoothed pay; hours beyond that are overtime paid at 125% in February, and up to 35 hours of recovery may carry into the first two months of the next year. Day-rate staff work a 218-day package, headquarters staff kept on 39 hours receive 23.5 rest days a year, and exceptional Sunday or public-holiday work at the employer's request gives 1.5 days of compensatory rest per day worked.

The employer sets leave dates after consulting the works council with four months' notice, including three consecutive summer weeks and a compulsory week over the year-end holidays. Family-event leave treats spouses, cohabiting partners and PACS partners alike: one week for the employee's marriage or PACS and a spouse's death, seven working days for a child's death, and one to three working days for close relatives. Sick leave keeps the national agreement's salary maintenance from three months' seniority instead of six, topping up net pay for 90 days plus one month per year of service from the fourth to the tenth year, and one year from the eleventh. Voluntary retirement pays one-tenth of monthly salary per year of service up to 30 years, then the national agreement's terms, and the employer devotes at least 2% of payroll to continuing training.

The agreement rests on the Code du travail and the Convention collective nationale du conseil et service en élevage du 6 juillet 2023.