Subsection 5: Status of employees.

Hours worked to replace hours lost due to bad weather are paid in accordance with the regulations without taking into account the compensation to which they gave rise under Articles L. 5424-6 to L. 5424-19.

An employee benefiting from the bad weather unemployment scheme remains at the disposal of the company employing him/her at the time of the work stoppage throughout the period of inactivity on the site.

The employee loses his right to compensation if he refuses to carry out the work requested of him by his company, when this work can be carried out during the bad weather, particularly in the workshop or office.

The employer who employs the employee during the bad weather maintains, for the duration of the work, the salary he was receiving before the work stoppage due to the bad weather. The hours paid in this way are deducted from the hours of unemployment giving rise to compensation.

The date of resumption of work for an unemployed employee is decided by the employer or the project manager’s representative on the worksite. The employee will be informed of this date by means of a notice posted at the company’s head office or office or at the entrance to the worksite. An employee who does not return to work as soon as the worksite reopens ceases to be entitled to…

Except in the case of serious misconduct on the part of the person concerned or in the event of work being stopped by the project manager on public works sites, the company may not dismiss an employee during the period of inactivity of the site on which the employee is employed. However, these provisions do not affect the effects resulting from the expiry of the notice period during the period…

When the employer makes employees available to public authorities, in application of the first paragraph of article L. 5424-18, he shall file, at the request of the town hall of the municipality where the work site is located, the number and type of employees whose work is interrupted.

The differential allowance provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 5424-18 is reimbursed to the public authorities by the paid leave funds.