An employee may, at his request and in agreement with the employer, give up anonymously and without consideration all or part of his untaken rest days, whether or not they have been allocated to a time savings account, for the benefit of another employee of the company who has signed a commitment to serve in the operational reserve to enable him to carry out a period of activity in the operational reserve. Annual leave may only be transferred for a period exceeding twenty-four working days.
The employee benefiting from one or more days transferred in application of the first paragraph shall continue to be paid during the period of absence. This period of absence is treated as a period of actual work for the purposes of determining the employee’s seniority rights. The employee retains the benefit of all the advantages he had acquired before the start of his period of absence.