Gardner Aerospace makes the four-day week permanent from January 2027

Gardner Aerospace Operations France (Mazères, Ariège) makes the four-day week permanentLegifrance after an experiment in force from 4 November 2024 and extended twice. The agreement, signed on 29 September 2026Legifrance with FO and CFDTLegifrance after a unanimous works-council opinion, runs indefinitelyLegifrance. It enters into force on 1 October 2026.Legifrance Its effective application starts on 4 January 2027.Legifrance

Permanent and fixed-term employees, apprenticeship and professionalisation contracts, and agency staff are covered if they work 151,67 hours a month on daytime hours in a compatible job.Legifrance Excluded are cadres, team managers, 2x8 or 3x8 shift and overlapping (VSD) staff, part-time employees, senior executives, interns and contractors.Legifrance Some daytime services stay on five days in principle: customer quality and ILC staff tied to shift or night workshops, programme managers and planning, the supply-chain store, industrial-methods staff tied to shift workshops, team leaders and machine-assigned production staff, human resources, finance and accounting, and IT.Legifrance Derogations are possible at the manager's initiative with human-resources and site approval, but never a vested right. The list is reviewed yearly with changes applied on 1 June. Eligible employees may opt out on simple request without giving reasons.

The 151,67 monthly hours spread over four days a weekLegifrance means 8 hours 45 minutes of theoretical effective work per dayLegifrance. The company stays open five days.Legifrance Each week brings one rest day called jour offLegifrance, and no RTT accrues anymoreLegifrance. Only Monday, Wednesday and Friday may be chosen as jour off.Legifrance Tuesday and Thursday are excluded. The line manager decides the jour off on skills, service needs and workload. It cannot be split into half-days. It cannot be carried over. It is stable but reviewed yearly in annual appraisals with reasonable notice of change.

The manager may reshuffle jours off with 7 calendar days' notice. An employee may request an exceptional one-off change for justified personal reasons with 7 calendar days' notice excluding public holidays. The written reply comes no later than 48 hours before the date. Two colleagues may swap jours off with 7 calendar days' notice and the manager's express approval. Call-backs onto a jour off are exceptional. They are capped at 7 days per calendar year. More is possible only with the employee's exclusive agreement and within statutory limits. Notice is at least 7 calendar days. Each day worked triggers the premium for work on a normally non-worked day where eligible. The hours feed the credit-debit counter, usable as time off or paid at the employee's choice.

A public holiday falling on a jour off is not recovered. A solidarity day on a jour off is worked or moved, though the employee may instead take leave. Overtime follows the 26 September 2024 variable-hours agreement. Pay, premiums and company agreements are unaffected. Paid-leave accrual stays at 5 weeks, which is 25 working days. Five leave days a year are taken on jours off, under annual works-council consultation. Meal, transport and daily allowances are paid only for days actually worked. Four-day staff may telework one day per fortnight. A second job is allowed unless the contract forbids it, within maximum hours, with no competing activity, once declared. Training on a jour off counts as effective working time. Staff and managers have until 30 November 2026 to agree on patterns.Legifrance Final validation comes no later than 15 December 2026.Legifrance

Legal basis: Accord collectif Gardner Aerospace Operations France du 29 septembre 2026 sur la semaine en quatre jours, applicable from 4 January 2027, read with Code du travail articles L.3121-68, L.3121-19, L.3131-2, L.4121-1, R.4121-2 and L.6321-1.