“One of our employees who works full-time wishes, for personal reasons, to switch to part-time. To this end, he sent us a written request which we accepted. What formalities do we now have to complete?
To formalize your employee’s transition to part-time work, you must conclude an amendment to their employment contract in writing.
This document must mention, in particular:
- the employee’s new remuneration.
- his/her weekly or monthly working hours.
- the distribution of this working time between the days of the week or the weeks of the month (except for employees of home help associations and companies and employees covered by a collective agreement providing for part-time work arranged over a period longer than a week).
- the cases in which the distribution of working time may be modified and the nature of this modification.
- the terms and conditions under which the working hours for each day are communicated in writing to the employee.v
- the volume of additional hours, i.e., those worked more than the working hours provided for in the amendment, that he or she may be required to perform.
However, you do not have to detail your employee’s working hours in this amendment.
Important: Be sure to consult your collective agreement, which may contain specific provisions on part-time work.