Validation of prior experience leave

Bodies involved:
DGEFP (General delegation for employment and vocational training)
OPCAs / OPACIFs / FONGECIFs (associations created by agreement between employers' organizations and trade unions)
FPSPP (administrated by employers organizations and trade unions)

OPCAs are in charge of collecting companies' contribution. OPCAs will transfer then transfer the funding to OPACIFs through the FPSPP. Funding requests are processed by OPACIFs. The FPSPP also provides financial assistance to OPACIF.

If an employee (under an open-ended contract or fixed-term contract) wishes to benefit from the validation of his prior experience during working hours, he must make request of absence to his company. This request is sent to the employer at least 60 days before the scheduled the start date. The employer cannot refuse the leave, but can delay it if justified. The service provider of the validation of prior experience must be chosen from a list established by the FONGECIF/OPACIF to which his company his linked. The remuneration of the employee is maintained if the financing of validation of prior experience is accepted by the OPACIF (otherwise, the employee is on unpaid leave). The leave is limited to 24 hours (consecutive or not).

Employee under an open-ended contract must prove a professional experience (in the a broad sense, including voluntary work, etc.) of at least 3 years. Employee under fixed-term contracts (or previously working under one) has to: have worked for 24 months, consecutively or not, as an employee or apprentice, during the last five years. The leave takes place outside the period of the work contract and shall begin no later than 12 months after the end of the contract. However, the leave may be taken at the employee's request and with the agreement of the employer, in whole or in part before the end of the employment contract.

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Validation of prior experience

Levy on companies

Salary and validation of prior experience costs (fully or partially).

Specific arrangement

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7 774 individuals participated in the training leave in 2013.

FPSPP.

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