Employment & Labor

#2018-771Law for the Freedom to Choose One's Professional Future

🇫🇷France··Other·High Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This law modifies how vocational training rights are calculated and utilized in France. It changes the units of these training rights from hours to euros, ensuring they remain valid even if someone's job status changes. It also details who can contribute to topping up these accounts when training costs exceed their balances.

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Key Changes

  • Training rights are now calculated in euros instead of hours.
  • Rights remain valid despite job changes.
  • Options for funding training cost differences are expanded.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Change the unit of vocational training rights calculation from hours to euros in Article L. 6323-2 of the French Labor Code

Caisse des dépôts et consignations, training account administrators
operational
high

Ensure vocational training rights remain valid and acquired even when account holders change professional status or lose employment, except under conditions specified in Article L. 5421-4

Caisse des dépôts et consignations, training account administrators
operational
high

Provide free digital service allowing account holders to access information on account balance, eligible supplementary funding sources, and eligible training programs

Caisse des dépôts et consignations
operational
medium

Allow supplementary funding (abondements) to training accounts when training costs exceed available rights, with funding potentially sourced from 14 specified entities including employers, state, regions, and specialized organizations

Employers, state authorities, regional governments, Pôle emploi, competency operators, and other specified funding bodies
operational
medium

Employers must provide supplementary funding contributions to employee training accounts upon employee request when training costs exceed available rights

All employers with salaried employees
operational

Affected Parties

EmployeesEmployers+2 more…

Tags

vocational training,employment rights,financial management