Employment & Labor

#TRST2612771AExtension of the Inter-Company Savings Plan Agreement for the French Metalworking Sector

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

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🇬🇧 English

This order makes the February 2026 agreement creating an inter-company employee savings plan mandatory across the French metalworking sector. It applies to all employers and employees covered by the national metalworking collective agreement of 7 February 2022. Companies in the sector must treat the savings plan rules as binding from the publication date of the order. The order also clarifies that any employer matching contributions mentioned in the plan annexes must remain optional for participating companies.

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Key Changes

  • Extends the inter-company employee savings plan agreement to all employers and employees covered by the metalworking collective agreement
  • Makes the agreement binding from the publication date of the order
  • Confirms that employer matching contributions must remain optional for participating companies

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Employers covered by the national metalworking collective agreement of 7 February 2022 must apply the stipulations of the 20 February 2026 agreement establishing the inter-company employee savings plan (PEI) as mandatory sector rules.

employers covered by the French national metalworking collective agreement
From the publication date of the order in the French Official Journal
operational
medium

Participating companies must treat any employer matching contribution arrangements in Annex 1 of the PEI as optional, consistent with Article 16 of the plan.

companies participating in the metalworking sector PEI
From the publication date of the order in the French Official Journal
operational
medium

Participating companies must treat any employer matching contribution arrangements in Annex 2 of the PEI as optional, consistent with Article 16 of the plan.

companies participating in the metalworking sector PEI
From the publication date of the order in the French Official Journal
operational

Affected Parties

Employers in the French metalworking sectorEmployees covered by the national metalworking collective agreement+1 more…

Tags

metalworking,employee savings,collective agreement