#2025-338Decree No. 2025-338 on Long-Term Partial Activity Scheme
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The Decree No. 2025-338 establishes a framework for a specific scheme referred to as 'long-term partial activity rebound' allowing employers to reduce working hours significantly, between 0-40%, supporting businesses facing prolonged economic downturns. It mandates the creation of branch agreements detailing economic diagnostics and prospective actions to ensure business sustainability while aiming to retain employees through professional development commitments.
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Key Changes
- Allows reduction of working hours up to 40% or 50% under specific conditions.
- Requires branch agreements to address skills development for employee mobility.
- Sets out obligations for employers in terms of employee communication and adherence to agreements.
Obligations
What this law requires
Create branch agreements or collective agreements containing a preamble with: (1) economic diagnosis justifying sustained activity reduction, (2) activity prospects and actions to ensure business sustainability, and (3) skills development needs aligned with activity prospects.
Define in agreements: start date and duration of the scheme, maximum work hour reduction (0-40%, exceptionally up to 50% with administrative authorization), employment maintenance commitments, professional training commitments, and quarterly information procedures for employee representative organizations.
Submit validation/homologation requests to administrative authority in dematerialized form, accompanied by the collective agreement or employer document and CSE opinion (if applicable for companies with 50+ employees).
Inform all employees within the scheme's scope about employment maintenance and professional training commitments. For companies with 50+ employees, inform the social and economic committee (CSE) of these commitments.
Ensure professional training actions cover all employees in the scheme's scope during its entire duration, with actions proposed and financing methods specified in the collective agreement.