Everhour Time Tracking captures project hours, but France's working-time rules require precise daily records and careful overtime review.
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Use this page to organize working time for employees, contractors, or project teams operating in France. The practical goal is a reliable weekly record that shows the person, date, task or project, start and finish time, breaks or rest periods, and total effective working time. That record gives payroll, finance, and managers one place to check hours before invoices, wages, or client reports use the data.
France also has a strong legal reason to keep time records disciplined. As an EU member state, France falls under the CJEU CCOO v Deutsche Bank baseline requiring an objective, reliable and accessible system for measuring each worker's daily working time. French labour law adds specific recordkeeping duties for non-collective schedules and requires automatic recording systems to be reliable and tamper-proof.
France's general private-sector legal full-time duration is 35 hours per week, equal to 151.67 hours per month or 1,607 hours per year. For a full-time employee, work requested by the employer beyond 35 hours in a week or 1,607 hours in a year is overtime. A useful time record separates regular working time, overtime, rest, and absence instead of leaving payroll to reconstruct the week from comments.
Daily and weekly caps also shape the record. A private-sector adult employee's effective working time generally may not exceed 10 hours per day, with exceptions such as labour-inspector approval, urgent temporary workload, or a collective agreement allowing up to 12 hours. Weekly working time may not exceed 48 hours in one week or 44 hours per week on average over 12 consecutive weeks, except through specified higher-limit routes.
Employee time entries, schedules, and monitoring details that identify workers are personal data under the GDPR. A France-facing workflow needs a lawful basis, clear employee information, access controls, and secure processing. Basic time entry is different from broad activity monitoring. The time record should collect the details needed for work, payroll, billing, and legal review without adding unnecessary surveillance fields.
Localization also matters. France's official EU language is French and its currency is the euro (€), so reports, invoices, and money fields should support French labels and euro-denominated amounts where costs or billing appear. A clean client report can show project, task, date, person, billable status, hours, rate, and euro total without exposing private notes or employee monitoring details.
A one-off weekly total is enough for a quick internal check, a small client summary, or a short retrospective on project hours. It stops being enough once several people track work across clients, overtime needs review, managers approve timesheets, or finance needs the same records for payroll, billing, and margin reporting. Manual spreadsheets also make later corrections hard to audit.
Everhour fits the managed workflow when time records need to move from capture to review. Teams can use live timers or manual entries against tasks and projects, then feed those hours into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Admins can use approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules so the weekly record stays controlled after people submit time.
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France sits under the EU baseline from CJEU CCOO v Deutsche Bank, which requires an objective, reliable and accessible system for measuring each worker's daily working time. French labour law also requires documents for employees on non-collective schedules, including working time, accrued compensatory rest, and actual rest taken.
A practical French time record should make the 35-hour legal full-time week visible, plus daily and weekly totals. The general private-sector frame includes 10 hours per day, 48 hours in a single week, and 44 hours per week on average over 12 consecutive weeks, subject to listed exceptions and collective terms.
For a full-time employee, employer-requested work beyond 35 hours per week or 1,607 hours per year is overtime. Without applicable collective provisions, the default premium is 25% for the first 8 overtime hours in the week, from the 36th through 43rd hour, then 50% from the 44th hour onward.
Automatic time recording can be used, but French labour law requires a system that counts each employee's working time to be reliable and tamper-proof. The employer must also be able to provide evidence of actual hours in working-time disputes, so editable logs need controls, history, and approval discipline.
The common mistake is collecting more worker-identifying activity data than the timekeeping purpose requires. Under the GDPR, employee time-entry, schedule, and monitoring data are personal data. A better setup limits fields to work records, applies access permissions, explains the processing clearly, and protects exported reports.
Everhour Time Tracking lets users start live timers or add manual entries against tasks and projects, including inside supported tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Those entries can feed timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review from the same time layer.
Everhour Timesheets let managers approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time before payroll, billing, or reporting uses it. Submitted time is locked unless withdrawn or rejected, and approved time stays locked for regular members, which gives teams a clearer approval trail.
Track approved hours, review weekly totals, and move project time into billing or payroll records. Everhour gives teams a durable time workflow for France-facing work.
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