Title II: Compensation for unemployed workers

Unemployment and bad weather compensation expenses are covered by a contribution payable by companies carrying out one or more of the professional activities mentioned in article D. 5424-7.

The departments created within the paid leave funds with a view to allocating the daily bad weather allowance defined in Article L. 5424-12 have separate accounts from those of the other departments of the compensation fund.

The employer will issue the employee leaving the company with a certificate stating the number of hours and the periods during which he has benefited from the unemployment and bad weather allowance during the period of the current calendar year in which he was employed by the company.

The employer pays the contributions for bad weather insurance to the compensation fund on which it already depends for the application of the legislation on paid holidays.

For the companies listed in 2° of article D. 5424-7 which, under the legislation on paid leave, are not required to join a compensation fund for building or public works, the employer pays its contributions to the competent compensation fund for building companies and the locality of the company’s registered office.

The employer shall comply with the obligations arising from the regulations drawn up for the application of this section by the fund to which it is affiliated.

The affiliation provided for in articles D. 5424-32 and D. 5424-33 takes effect on the date on which the company begins to employ employees.

The contributions paid by the employer to the paid leave funds are based on all salaries taken into account for the calculation of social security contributions, less an allowance for each of them, the amount of which is set annually by a joint order of the ministers responsible for employment and the budget. This deduction may not be less than 8,000 times the hourly wage of a labourer in the…

The contribution comprises two separate rates, one applicable to companies involved in structural work and public works, the other to companies not falling into this category. If a company’s activities fall into both categories, it is included in the category corresponding to its main activity, unless it has separate establishments for each category.

The rates of contributions are calculated in such a way as to ensure that the costs are equalised between all the companies liable for contributions at national level, while taking into account the specific characteristics of each of the two categories defined in article D. 5424-37.