#TRST2606676AExtension of the railway sector agreement on employment, apprenticeships and vocational training
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This order makes the railway sector agreement on employment, apprenticeships and vocational training mandatory for all employers and employees covered by the French railway branch agreement. It affects railway companies, workers, apprentices, trainees, and HR teams managing training and work-study contracts. The extension comes with limits. Some clauses apply only if they respect national labor law, especially rules on disabled workers’ access to training, distance learning for apprenticeships, validation of prior experience, apprenticeship contract transitions, and professionalization contracts. Several wording points are excluded because they conflict with the Labor Code.
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Key Changes
- Makes the railway branch agreement on employment, apprenticeships and vocational training binding across the covered sector
- Limits or conditions several clauses to ensure they comply with national labor law
- Excludes wording on apprenticeship training time and post-apprenticeship hiring where it conflicts with the Labor Code
Obligations
What this law requires
Apply the provisions of the 23 September 2025 railway branch agreement on employment, work-study schemes, and vocational training to all employers and employees covered by the 23 April 2015 railway branch scope agreement, subject to the exclusions and reservations stated in the extension order.
Treat article 3 of the extended agreement as applicable only to article 17.2 concerning access to training for workers with disabilities; for other matters governed by Labour Code article L. 2253-3, apply company-level agreements where they prevail over branch-level provisions on the same subject.
Ensure that any distance learning under apprenticeship contracts concerns only the theoretical training component, in accordance with Labour Code article L. 6211-2.
Do not treat the 48-hour maximum mentioned for validation of prior experience as the maximum duration of the full VAE pathway; it applies only to VAE leave under Labour Code article L. 6422-2.
Do not apply the excluded wording allowing training time in apprenticeship/CFA to be justified by catching up on identified gaps or carrying out exam revision, because that wording is excluded from extension as contrary to Labour Code article L. 6222-24.