Working in a split shift: regulations on Skello.

Split work is quite common in the restaurant industry but is also found in the hospitality sector more generally, especially at this time when team rotations and shift swaps are more common! This discontinuous work must be taken into account according to several regulations: Skello explains them in this article for you.

👋 What is split work?

Split work corresponds to an employee's day consisting of several work sequences separated from each other. An employee on intermittent work will have several periods of interruption in their activity.

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💡 To give a concrete example, a server will, for example, work in a bar to do the morning service and serve breakfast, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., then will return for the evening service from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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How do you manage break work on Skello?

👉 On your scheduling software Skello, break times for part-time employees are regulated for part-time employees only.

Breakfast work for the hospitality sector ☕️

The duration between 2 shifts (called a break) is a maximum of 5 hours. 

According to the collective agreement for Hotels, Cafes, Restaurants, if the break is longer than 2 hours, up to a limit of 5 hours for part-time employees, the employee must benefit from specific compensation to be provided for by company agreement. 

Failing this, these compensations are as follows:

• Each work sequence must be a minimum of 3 consecutive hours
• The contractual working hours cannot be less than 24 hours/week (or the equivalent monthly, quarterly, or annual)

Intermittent Work in Fast Food 🍔

The duration between two shifts (called a break) is a maximum of 5 hours for part-time employees. Employees must receive a break bonus for each interruption exceeding 2 hours of 70% of the Guaranteed Minimum. As of January 1, 2018, the amount of the guaranteed minimum increased to 3.57 euros.

Intermittent Work in Artisanal Bakery and Pastry 🧈

For all part-time contracts of at least 18 hours, there can be no more than one break per working day. This break cannot exceed 5 hours.

Intermittent work in Industrial Pastry 🥖

No working day can be less than 3 consecutive hours. Regardless of any break, there can only be one interruption per working day. In this case, one of the two work periods must be at least 3 hours long.

When the interruption is longer than 2 hours, up to a limit of 3 hours, the hours worked after the interruption are increased by 10%.

The daily working time cannot exceed 10 hours. The daily working hours cannot exceed 10 hours.