Translation of "Loi sur la durée du travail " (French → English) :

In order to protect employees and jobs, the effects of insolvency proceedings on the continuation or termination of employment and on the rights and obligations of all parties to such employment should be determined by the law applicable to the relevant employment agreement, in accordance with the general rules on conflict of laws.

2. The exclusion, by the Public Service Commission, from the operation of the Public Service Employment Act, of persons who are not ordinarily required to work more than one-third of the normal scheduled daily or weekly hours of work established for persons doing similar work, and of persons employed under the authority of the Part-time Employees Exclusion Approval Order, C.R.C., c. 1350 as it read before January 1, 1981 and the Part-Time Employment Regulations, C.R.C., c. 1351 as it read before January 1, 1981, who are ordinarily required to work more than one-third of the normal scheduled daily or weekly hours of work established for p ...[+++]ersons doing similar work but not more than 15 hours per week, is hereby approved.

Thus, where the parties have not chosen the law to be applied, the contract of employment is governed by the law of the country in which the employee ‘habitually carries out his work’ or, in the alternative, if the employee does not habitually carry out his work in any one country, by the law of the country in which the place of business of the employer is situated.

Full-time employees are those whose normal working hours are the same as the collectively agreed or customary hours worked in the local unit under consideration, even if their contract is for less than one year.

The full package contains the following elements: - A Communication on the organisation of working time in the sectors and activities excluded from Directive 93/104/EC of 23rd November 1993; - A proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 93/104/EC on working time, to cover sectors and activities excluded from the Directive ; A proposal for a Council Directive on the working time of mobile workers in the road transport sector and self-employed drivers;

In short the proposals are as follows : - minimum daily rest period of 11 hours in 24 hours; - every seven-day period at least one rest day on average (with a reference period of 14 days); - annual paid holiday related to national practices; - night workers should not work more than 8 hours per 24 hours; - no overtime by night workers; - in establishing breaks for rotating shift workers and for night workers account shall be taken of the more demanding nature; - special arrangements for health assessment and transfer to day work for night workers; - derogations are possible (oil rigs, transport, distribution, seasonal jobs).