Validation of prior experience leave
- Name of the instrument - Local language
- Congé pour validation des acquis de l'expérience
- Name of the instrument - English translation
- Validation of prior experience leave
- Country
- France
- Type of instrument
- Training leave
- Type of entry
- Single instrument
- Short description
An employee has the right, under certain conditions, to take a leave in order to undertake a validation of prior experience while retaining his salary and benefiting from funding to pay the training provider. The employer cannot refuse the leave, but can delay it if justified. The leave is limited to 24 hours.
- Short description of the related instruments
nap
- Level of operation
- National
- Name of a part of the country
- nap
- Name of the region (for regional instruments)
- nap
- Name of the sector (for sectoral instruments)
- nap
- Relevance
- Marginal scheme
- Operation/Management
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).
- Eligible group(s)
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.
- Group(s) with preferential treatment
None
- Education and training eligible
Validation of prior experience
- Source of financing and collection mechanism
Levy on companies
- Financing formula and allocation mechanisms
Salary and validation of prior experience costs (fully or partially).
- Eligible costs
Specific arrangement
- Volumes of funding
na
- Beneficiaries/take up
7 774 individuals participated in the training leave in 2013.
- Organisation responsible for monitoring/evaluation
FPSPP.
- Monitoring/evaluation reports available
na
- Most relevant webpage - in English
na
- Most relevant webpage - local language
na
- Sources
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