Any employee holding the approval mentioned in articles L. 225-2 and L. 225-17 of the French Social Action and Family Code is entitled to unpaid international and extra-metropolitan adoption leave when, with a view to adopting a child, he or she goes abroad to a collectivity governed by Article 73 or Article 74 of the Constitution or to New Caledonia, from a metropolitan department, another collectivity governed by Article 73 of the Constitution or from Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin or Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.
Entitlement to leave is for a maximum of six weeks per approval.
The employee must inform his employer at least two weeks before his departure of the starting point and the planned duration of the leave.
The employee has the right to return to his initial activity if he interrupts his leave before the planned date.
At the end of their leave, employees return to their previous job or a similar job with at least equivalent pay.