Few people know it, the time change could however penalize certain workers on their salary.
It is an event that occurs twice a year, in March and October, and it’s for this weekend. The change of summer time will take place on the night of Saturday 29 to Sunday 30 March. In the middle of the night, at 2:00 am, France will be propelled directly at 3:00 am. And as every summer change time, an hour of sleep will therefore be lost. But for part of the population, it is not an hour of rest that will evaporate, but an hour of work.
In France 3.2 million people were thus considered to be workers at night in 2023, according to a survey of the Daresincluding 1 million regularly. According to theArticle L3122-29 From the labor code, “any work between 9 pm and 6 hours is considered to be night work”. And to be considered a night worker, the employee must have at least three hours of night twice a week or 270 hours minimum over 12 months. Night workers are more numerous in areas such as the manufacture of foodstuffs, transport, health, agriculture, accommodation and catering.
Working at night must obviously give rise to compensatory rest or wage compensation. And during the night of the time change, the lost time can impact this salary. The Labor Code does not provide for a specific rule on this situation, because it only concerns a minority of salaried workers, which coupled weekends and night, very often in an interim status paid on time. This still concerns thousands of people, even tens of thousands of people, According to Dare data.
However, a ministerial response was given in 1976, the year of the reintroduction of time change in France. She assures that the employer can if he wishes to withdraw his employee for an hour’s salary. “When the above -mentioned variations have reduced an employee by one hour, the employer is founded to exercise a corresponding restraint on the remuneration,” explains the text. Which therefore impacts the downward salary.
“The employee will have the equivalent of one hour of less salary on his pay slip,” confirms the lawyer Luca Benoiton for juritravail.fr. However, the latter encourages it to refer to the collective agreement of the company, which can provide for suitable terms. Do not hesitate to question your hierarchical superior. When going to winter time, the situation is more to the advantage of night workers who can be paid an additional hour. In some cases, the company decides to make the same team work during the two time changes, allowing a fact -off compensation and therefore not asking to review the salary. The employer can also shift the job taking to avoid the impact of the time change.