Section 4: Duration and implementation of professionalisation actions.

The minimum duration of the professionalisation programme under a fixed-term professionalisation contract or at the start of an open-ended professionalisation contract is between six and twelve months. It may be extended to thirty-six months for the people mentioned in article L. 6325-1-1.

The minimum duration of the professionalisation programme may be extended to twenty-four months for persons other than those mentioned in article L. 6325-11 or when the nature of the qualifications provided so requires. These beneficiaries and the nature of these qualifications are defined by agreement or collective branch agreement or, failing that, by collective agreement concluded between the representative employers’ and employees’ organisations that are signatories to the agreement constituting…

In the context of fixed-term professionalisation contracts or professionalisation actions undertaken in the context of open-ended contracts, the positioning, assessment and support actions as well as the general, vocational and technological teaching are implemented by a training organisation or, when it has a training department, by the company itself. The minimum duration of these courses is between 15%, but not less than 150 hours, and 25% of the total duration…

A branch agreement may extend the duration of the courses beyond 25% for certain categories of beneficiaries, in particular for those mentioned in article L. 6325-1-1 or for those aiming for training leading to a qualification. In the absence of a branch agreement, an agreement may be concluded between the representative employers’ and employees’ organisations that are signatories to the agreement establishing a joint body for collecting continuing vocational training…

A branch agreement or a collective agreement concluded between the employees’ and employers’ trade unions that are signatories to the agreement setting up a cross-industry skills operator may define the procedures for continuing and financing, for a period not exceeding six months, the assessment and support actions and the courses mentioned in article L. 6325-13, for the benefit of people whose professionalisation contract included a professionalisation action, within the meaning…

Any clause providing for the reimbursement of training costs to the employer by the holder of a professionalisation contract in the event of termination of the employment contract is null and void.