{
  "table": "overtime-pay-calculator-rules",
  "schema": 1,
  "version": "2026-11-11.2",
  "title": "Overtime pay rules: France and United Kingdom",
  "doc": "Rule table read by the overtime-pay-calculator handler (ctx.data['overtime-pay-calculator-rules']). Hours are hours per week; rates are percentage points (25 means +25 %); money is in major units. France: overtime is every hour worked beyond the legal 35-hour week, counted per calendar week, paid at the legal surcharges unless a collective agreement sets its own rates (never below 10 %). United Kingdom: no law sets an overtime rate; the contract does, and only the minimum wage, checked on pay that leaves out overtime premiums, and the working time limits apply. Table-level valid_from/valid_until bound the period during which this version may be relied on: the French SMIC is revalued every 1 January and the British minimum wage every 1 April, so it must be reviewed by 2026-12-31. Entry-level valid_from/valid_until bound each value; null valid_until means in force until changed; null valid_from means the start date was not needed for this table. source_url is the primary source for the value, source_date that source's own date (or the date it was checked when the page shows none), retrieved the date the value was read there.",
  "reviewed_on": "2026-11-11",
  "reviewed_by": "apps-calculators agent (automated research against official sources, every value read on its source on 2026-11-11); owner review pending",
  "valid_from": "2026-11-11",
  "valid_until": "2026-12-31",
  "locale_country": {
    "fr-FR": "FR",
    "en-GB": "GB"
  },
  "month": {
    "weeks_per_year": 52,
    "months_per_year": 12,
    "doc": "A month of regular weeks is hours per week × 52 ÷ 12, the basis of the official monthly SMIC (12,31 € × 35 × 52 ÷ 12 = 1 867,02 €).",
    "source_url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2300",
    "source_date": "2026-06-01",
    "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
  },
  "countries": {
    "FR": {
      "currency": "EUR",
      "scope": {
        "fr-FR": "Salariés du secteur privé à temps plein, en France métropolitaine et dans les départements d’outre-mer. Pas les cadres dirigeants ni les salariés en forfait annuel en jours.",
        "en-GB": "Full-time private-sector employees in mainland France and the overseas departments. Not senior executives or employees on an annual days package."
      },
      "legal_weekly_hours": {
        "value": 35,
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3121-27 et L3121-28",
        "valid_from": "2016-08-10",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGISCTA000033020379",
        "source_date": "2016-08-10",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2391"
        ]
      },
      "statutory_premiums": {
        "first_tier_hours": 8,
        "first_rate": 25,
        "second_rate": 50,
        "doc": "Without an agreement: +25 % for each of the first eight overtime hours of the week (36th to 43rd hour), +50 % from the 44th hour.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3121-36",
        "valid_from": "2016-08-10",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGISCTA000033020349",
        "source_date": "2016-08-10",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2391"
        ]
      },
      "agreement_minimum_rate": {
        "value": 10,
        "doc": "A company or branch agreement sets the overtime rate or rates; none may be below 10 %.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3121-33",
        "valid_from": "2020-01-01",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGISCTA000033020362",
        "source_date": "2020-01-01",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2391"
        ]
      },
      "weekly_limits": {
        "absolute_max": 48,
        "average_max": 44,
        "average_weeks": 12,
        "doc": "Maximum working time: 48 hours in any one week (up to 60 in exceptional circumstances, with authorisation) and 44 hours a week on average over 12 consecutive weeks.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3121-20 et L3121-22",
        "valid_from": "2016-08-10",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1911",
        "source_date": "2025-09-25",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
      },
      "minimum_wage": {
        "hourly": 12.31,
        "mayotte_hourly": 9.56,
        "doc": "Gross hourly SMIC from 1 June 2026, in mainland France, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, La Réunion, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon; Mayotte has its own. Overtime surcharges do not count towards it.",
        "legal_basis": "Arrêté du 22 mai 2026 relatif au relèvement du salaire minimum de croissance (NOR TRST2612929A), art. 1er",
        "valid_from": "2026-06-01",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000054126589",
        "source_date": "2026-05-24",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2300"
        ]
      }
    },
    "GB": {
      "currency": "GBP",
      "scope": {
        "fr-FR": "Royaume-Uni : aucune loi ne fixe de majoration, c’est le contrat qui la prévoit. Le salaire minimum s’applique dans tout le Royaume-Uni ; les règles de durée du travail citées ici couvrent la Grande-Bretagne (l’Irlande du Nord a les siennes).",
        "en-GB": "United Kingdom: no law sets an overtime rate; the contract does. The minimum wage applies across the UK; the working time rules quoted here cover Great Britain (Northern Ireland has its own)."
      },
      "statutory_premium": {
        "value": null,
        "doc": "Employers do not have to pay for overtime, but average pay for the total hours worked must not fall below the National Minimum Wage. The contract usually sets the overtime rate.",
        "valid_from": null,
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/overtime-your-rights",
        "source_date": "2026-11-11",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
      },
      "minimum_wage_counting": {
        "doc": "Pay for hours of time work counts towards the minimum wage only up to the lowest rate per hour that could be payable under the contract for that work, even when worked at a different time: an overtime premium does not count, and when overtime is paid below the basic rate (but paid), the basic hours too count only at that lower rate (HMRC NMWM09270, example 2). Unpaid overtime hours add hours with no pay.",
        "legal_basis": "The National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015, reg. 10(j)",
        "valid_from": "2015-04-06",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/621/regulation/10",
        "source_date": "2015-04-06",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/national-minimum-wage-manual/nmwm09270"
        ]
      },
      "minimum_wage": {
        "bands": {
          "21-plus": 12.71,
          "18-20": 10.85,
          "under-18": 8,
          "apprentice": 8
        },
        "doc": "Hourly National Living Wage (21 and over) and National Minimum Wage rates from 1 April 2026. The apprentice rate applies to apprentices under 19, or 19 and over in the first year of their apprenticeship. The rates announced for April 2027 (£13.21, £11.27, £8.31, £8.31) are not in force yet.",
        "legal_basis": "The National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015, regs. 4 and 4A, as amended by S.I. 2026/357",
        "valid_from": "2026-04-01",
        "valid_until": "2027-03-31",
        "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates",
        "source_date": "2026-11-05",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/621/regulation/4"
        ]
      },
      "weekly_limits": {
        "average_max": 48,
        "average_weeks": 17,
        "under_18_max": 40,
        "doc": "No more than 48 hours a week on average, normally over 17 weeks, unless the worker opts out in writing; under 18: no more than 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week, with no opt-out. The Working Time Regulations 1998 extend to Great Britain only (reg. 1(2)).",
        "legal_basis": "Working Time Regulations 1998, regs. 4 and 5A",
        "valid_from": null,
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours",
        "source_date": "2026-11-11",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/4",
          "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/1"
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Service-public.gouv.fr : Heures supplémentaires d’un salarié du secteur privé (vérifié le 8 juin 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2391",
      "date": "2026-06-08"
    },
    {
      "label": "Service-public.gouv.fr : Smic (vérifié le 1er juin 2026)",
      "url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2300",
      "date": "2026-06-01"
    },
    {
      "label": "Légifrance : arrêté du 22 mai 2026 relatif au relèvement du salaire minimum de croissance",
      "url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000054126589",
      "date": "2026-05-24"
    },
    {
      "label": "GOV.UK: Overtime: your rights",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/overtime-your-rights",
      "date": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "label": "GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates",
      "date": "2026-11-05"
    }
  ]
}