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Employees in France are entitled to five weeks of annual leave per year. It is accrued at the rate of 2.5 days per month, from June 1 to May 31 of the following year. Collective bargaining agreements may grant additional days off.
A minimum of 12 consecutive days must be taken between May 01 and October 31, up to a maximum of 24 continuous days.
If less than 12 days are taken between May 01 and October 3, they can be noncontinuous.
All French parents are entitled to leave for births and adoptions, but during parental leave employees receive an allowance paid by the French Social Security. They are not paid by their employer unless otherwise specified in the Collective Bargaining Agreement applicable to the company.
The duration of maternity leave (“congé maternité”) varies according to the employee’s family situation:
There is a statutory prohibition to work for 8 weeks, of which 6 weeks is after childbirth.
Notice should be given to employers by letter sent via courier, including a signature upon receipt.
Maternity allowances are paid by social security and are 21% salary, with a minimum of €9.66, and a maximum of €89.03 per day.
In addition to three days leave at the time of the birth, fathers are entitled to 25 days of paternity leave (“congé paternité”) which must be taken within 6 months of the birth. They should give employers a notice period of a minimum of one month before the start of the leave.
Paternity allowances paid by social security and are 21% salary, with a minimum of €9.66, and a maximum of €89.03 per day.
When an employee is absent due to illness, the employment contract is suspended. The Social Security Health System in France pays an employee on sick leave a daily benefit from the public health insurance fund (“Caisse primaire d’assurance maladie”). The employee must have worked a minimum of 150 hours in the last 3 months or received a salary totalling at least 1,015 times the amount of the hourly SMIC (Statutory Minimum Wage) over the 6 calendar months before stopping work. A doctor’s note must be submitted to both the employer and the French social security administration within 48 hours of the first sick day.
The employer is legally required only to make up the difference between the public health benefit and the employee’s normal compensation but the employment contract or the CBA that are applicable may include conditions of compensation that are more favourable than those defined by social security. These may go up to the complete repayment of income (this is the case for short-term sick leave in Alsace-Moselle).
The conditions the employee must fulfil for additional benefits from the employer are:
Employer benefits start on the 7th day of sick leave – up to 60 days (where there is less than 5 years employment), and a maximum of 180 days (where there is more than 31 years employment) per year, as follows:
The French labor code provides a list of events which entitle an employee to take leave for family reasons, including bereavement. The law provides for a minimum duration of leave but a higher period may be fixed by the work contract, collective agreement of a company or a collective bargaining agreement.
In the event of the death of a relative, all employees are entitled to a leave of absence, the duration of which depends upon their relationship with the deceased person:
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The mandatory minimum amount of annual leave in France is five weeks per year.
The standard amount of paid time off in France is the mandatory minimum plus 11 French public holidays, giving a total of 36 days.
However, in some cases, specific Collective bargaining agreements can result in some employees receiving more than the mandatory minimum amount of annual leave in France.
French law does not stipulate that each employee get a certain amount of time off for illness, but it does allow for a certain number of paid sick days, as long as a doctor’s note is submitted to both the employer and the French social security administration within 48 hours of the first sick day.
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