I have posted on this before - had problems with my (English-based) employer sorting out my maternity pay.
They did eventually sort it out.
Rather than taking 16 weeks off for maternity leave, I took 8 weeks... with the proviso that I could work the other 8 weeks part time. This was agreed.
Oh I work mornings from home and I work afternoons 'on the road' or in different locations. I am their sole employee in France, on a French contract (Cadre). They have hired employment specialists to deal with all of this.
So it went like this: 4 weeks part time work followed by eight weeks maternity leave followed by another four weeks part time work.
The 8 weeks ML were on full pay, which is fantastic. However the other 8 weeks part-time work were paid on an hourly basis.
I am now coming to the end of my second part-time stint and will go back full-time next week. However the last four weeks I have ended up doing a lot more hours as there has a) been so much to catch up on and b) there has been a huge amount happening in my job during those four weeks. I am keeping track of my hours and there are days when I work 9 hours.
So my questions are
a) is there a French version of CAB that can advise me on this?
b) if I had taken the full 16 weeks would I have been entitled to full pay for those 16 weeks, ie - was I penalised financially for staring my ml late and finishing early?
c) If I work a day from say 8am-6pm can I expect to have a paid lunch hour/break in those hours. My company are reducing the hours of those days from 9 to 8 hours as I said that I do take an hour out in the day to eat lunch.
d) have you really read this far? Thank you so much for bearing with me!