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These constraints result from French collective agreements (Legifrance 2012).

This involves limiting the amplitude of a work day, the effective working time of a day, a week, and of a month, guaranteeing breaks, in particular the lunch break, and prohibiting too many breaks within a single day and, more specifically, long breaks.

By amplitude we refer to the total duration of a work day, except for the first and last trip of the day. The waiting time under the collective agreements corresponds to the time not worked that is less than 15 minutes between two successive interventions. As for the effective working time, this is the total duration of the services performed during the day with waiting times strictly less than 15 minutes between two services and travel times, except the first and last visit of the route. We make sure that each careworker has a lunch break and takes a break when working for longer than 6 hours at a time.

Finally, a careworker must have the necessary qualifications to provide a service and overqualified work is allowed.