French Labour Code
In forceIn commercial operations, employees may not be employed on the first day of Christmas, Easter or Pentecost.
On other Sundays and public holidays, they may not work for more than five hours.
By means of legally binding statutes, adopted after consultation with employers and employees and published in the prescribed form, the départements or communes may reduce working hours or prohibit work altogether for all commercial operations or for certain branches of activity.
During the last four weeks before Christmas or for certain Sundays and public holidays where local circumstances make increased activity necessary, the administrative authority may increase the number of hours worked to ten.
The hours during which work takes place are determined, taking into account the timetables of public religious services, by the statutory provisions that have reduced the number of working hours and, in other cases, by the administrative authority. They may be set differently for each branch of commercial activity.
The provisions of this article also apply to the employment of employees in consumer cooperatives and associations.
