Fiïnz bank moves to 37-hour week with 13 rest days

Full-time staff of the bank Fiïnz in metropolitan France, including the Niort site, work under a company working-time agreementLegifrance signed in NiortLegifrance on 21 September 2026Legifrance. Concluded for an indefinite periodLegifrance, it applies from the day after filingLegifrance and replaces the banking collective agreement's provisions on the same topics wherever incompatibleLegifrance, as well as all earlier company agreements and practices on working timeLegifrance.

The collective week is 37 hoursLegifrance, Monday to Friday as a rule with rotating schedules to cover opening hours, while pay stays on a 35-hour basis of 151.67 hours a monthLegifrance. The two extra hours a week earn compensatory rest daysLegifrance: 13 days per full calendar year without absenceLegifrance, credited at 1.08 days a monthLegifrance and shown as RTT on the payslip. Absences and mid-year arrivals or departures cut the credit pro rata to effective workLegifrance. Hours earning this rest do not count against the annual overtime quotaLegifrance.

Additional hours the company requests beyond 37 hours a week also earn compensatory rest covering the hours plus their mark-upsLegifrance: 10% up to and including the 40th hourLegifrance and 25% beyondLegifrance. Only hours expressly requested and validated in advance by the line manager and management count as overtimeLegifrance; the employer alone decidesLegifrance, and hours an employee works on their own initiative are neither recorded nor paidLegifrance.

Rest days are taken as whole daysLegifrance, combinable with each other and with paid leave up to three calendar weeks of absenceLegifrance. Days earned in year N must be taken by 30 June of year N+1 or they are lostLegifrance, with neither carryover except in exceptional circumstances nor payment for untaken daysLegifrance. Requests go to the employer one month ahead, two months ahead for the summer period of 1 July to 31 August and the Christmas periodLegifrance, stating date and lengthLegifrance; management answers within ten daysLegifrance, proposing another date when operations require postponementLegifrance. Competing requests are ranked by previously deferred requests first, then family situation, then seniorityLegifrance. Staff leaving with open, unexpired rights receive a cash indemnityLegifrance.

Daily effective work may not exceed ten hoursLegifrance, extendable to twelve for increased activity or organisational reasonsLegifrance, and weekly work may not exceed 48 hours or 46 hours averaged over any twelve consecutive weeksLegifrance. Daily rest is eleven consecutive hoursLegifrance, reducible to nine during workload peaks with the hours recovered promptlyLegifrance, and weekly rest is at least 35 consecutive hoursLegifrance. Meal time is not effective work unless the employee stays expressly at the manager's disposalLegifrance, and paid non-worked periods do not count toward working timeLegifrance. Part-timers, day- or hour-package staff and executive managers are outside the 37-hour schemeLegifrance.

The agreement rests on articles L. 3121-1, L. 3121-18 and L. 3121-33 of the Code du travail and the Convention collective de la banque.